Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in
1978. A historic map-sheet match is not published yet. The record needs a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary.
From the record
“Mendon is the only village in the township and has its share of all kinds of business, including one bank, one hotel, a large undertaking business, two or three dry goods houses, groceries and meat markets, a grain elevator, two implement and vehicle stores, steam grist-mill and newspaper. The town also has churches to suit all kindly disposed people, a number of fraternal societies, two physicians (Dr.”
History of Mercer County, Ohio, and Representative Citizens (1907). Machine-read text.
one of 28 National Register listings in Mercer County · listed in 1978 · category: Building.
National Register reference number.78002140- the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.
Abbey, James Watts, William McMichael and Daniel Murlin. Soon after this Thomas Upton became a resident of the township. In 1835 came John Tomlinson, John Ross, Wesley A. Parrott and his father, John Parrott, John E. Dutton and Resin P. Webb. In 1836 came John Edge. Early the same year came Jacob Panabaker, who located at Mendon (then known as Guilford), and built a saw and grist-mill on the St. Mary's River. Adam Panabaker came also the same year, as well as Asa Presho, Elhanan Porter, Job Harmon, Nathan Perry, Eleazer S. Wright and Robert Mortimore, who was a wheelwright by trade and devoted considerable time to making chairs, spinning wheels and reels for the early settlers.
The Mendon and Wesley Methodist Episcopal churches in Union township, and the Tomlinson Methodist Episcopal Church in Van Wert County, are in one charge, which has been served by the following pastors since 1879, namely: Revs. Lemuel Herbert, John T. Bower, Rudolph R. Bryan, C. S.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. Museums hold 109 specimens
collected within 10 miles of Mendon Town Hall between 1888 and
1967: 104 Animalia, 4 Plantae, 1 Bacteria. 12 distinct Species records are shown.
Collected by . R. Slonakerj, Brown, H P, Clark, C. F. (Clarence F.) and others. Each is a
physical object with a catalogue
number, and each entry opens the museum's record. This is what was
collected and kept, not a survey of what lives here - nothing can be
concluded from a species being absent.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Mendon, the town this property stands in, in 24 storm reports between 2001 and 2026: 10 flood, 8 hail, 5 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood.
No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office
filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date
opens the federal record of that event.
A roof was blow off of a home. A tree was blown onto another roof of the home. A radio antenna was blown down, and a large steel barn collapsed due to thunderstorm winds.
High water rushing rapidly over State Route 117. Several other roads flooded and closed across northeast Mercer County. A few drainage ditches were overflowing as well.
No historic map-sheet match is published
for this property yet. That does not mean no map exists. This record needs
a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary.
Browse the county's mapped places while that work is
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From the nomination file
1,580 words on record
When this property was proposed for the
National Register, someone wrote the case for it: what the building is,
and why it matters. That document is a federal record in the public domain.
It is quoted below word for word, never summarised. The text was read off the scanned case file by machine, so the
occasional stray character is the recogniser's and the 1970s
typewriter's.
Statement of significance
of 1905 entertainment was coming to the Hall, and receipts from the shows ART INVENTION THEATER PERIOD SIGNIFICANCE LAW COMMUNICATIONS ARCHEOLOGY-PREHISTORIC ARCHEOLOGY-HISTORIC AGRICULTURE EXPLORATION/SETTLEMENT INDUSTRY XARCHITECTURE XPOLITICS/GOVERNMENT COMMERCE LITERATURE X1900- _PHILOSOPHY MILITARY _TRANSPORTATION According to the Minutes of town council and township trustees, The Mendon Town Hallsprimary significance stems from the fact that are strongly committed to the building, and proud of its architecture and it has functioned as the governmental and social center of the village XSOCIAL/HUMANITARIAN This group uses the 2nd floor for showing movies and is anxious to restore of its long record of service to the community.
_SCULPTURE the theatre to its former position in the social life of the community. And because the Village is so small and shows no evidence of another -1500-1599 economic boom, there is no pressure to move out of the Village offices Christian, Rockford, Ohio,were accepted and he was given the building discovery of oil and gas in nearby fields contributed to a boom that -1400-1499 _EDUCATION -CONSERVATION and the Village of Mendon.It was erected by their joint effort in 19o4. _RELIGION - ENGINEERING -1700-1799 - ECONOMICS -1600-1699 _SCIENCE BUILDER/ARCHITECT William W. Christian _1800-1899 died out.It was revived in1977,with the formation of a Cinema Club. lasted from about 1880 to the 1920's.
MUSIC Union Township, and is used jointly and owned jointly by Union Township Christian was released from his contract by December of 19o4.By January because of lack of space and facilities.The township and the village planning for the building began late in 19o3.The plans of William W. The coming of the railroad and the are recorded in the Minutes.At Hall turned a nice
Quoted from the National Register nomination
for reference 78002140, 12 pages, held by the National Archives in Record
Group 79. See the
catalogue record.
Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
Specimens. Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF), https://www.gbif.org/. Only records licensed CC0 or CC BY are used. Records licensed CC BY-NC are excluded because this site carries advertising. Images are checked individually and any whose licence is non-commercial, no-derivatives or unreadable is refused.
Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.
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