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Lock No. 26
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in
1979. 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
“1828, the store now occupied by Giles L'Hommedieu was built, and the goods removed into it, leaving the first to be used for a dwelling only. It was not long before it became a place of entertainment for strangers, and finally a regular hotel.”
History of Summit County, with an Outline Sketch of Ohio (1881). Machine-read text.
one of 137 National Register listings in Summit County · listed in 1979 · category: Structure · one of 1 National Historic Landmarks in Summit County.
National Register reference number.79000302- 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.
The history of the Methodist Episcopal church is this : The " Twinsburg Circuit " was organized November 1, 1832. The society in Stow Township, now Cuyahoga Falls, was one of the appointments. The members met in a storehouse at the " old village," as it is now known. The first Presiding Elder was W. B. ^lack. The circuit preachers were Thomas Carr and John E. Akin. They preached once in two weeks alternateh'. Carr was re-appointed for 1833, and L. D. Prosser as his colleague. The preachers for the next 3'ear (1834) were Ira Eddy and A. Reaves. At this date, William Stevens was Presiding Elder. In 1835, E. H. Taylor and J. L. Holmes were sent to the circuit. The meetings were then held in the basement of the church building, at the Falls. The circuit preachers, in 1836, wei'e E.
1828, the store now occupied by Giles L'Hommedieu was built, and the goods removed into it, leaving the first to be used for a dwelling only. It was not long before it became a place of entertainment for strangers, and finally a regular hotel. It was first kept by Benjamin F. Hopkins. He was succeecled by E. B. 31organ, and he by Ira Loomis. It was known as the American House. It has passed through several hands since then, but has been little changed. The same j^ear (1828), Jabez Hamlin came and built the house next south of the " Big Spring," and, soon after, the tannery now owned b}' C. Kettleberger. In 1829, Mr. Richardson built a log house in the southeast corner of what is now George Sacketts yard, and afterward the thii'd house south of Falls street, on Front street, in which he spent the rest of his life. He died in 1836.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 13 fires within 5 miles of Lock No. 26 between
1993 and 2012, burning about 7 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 1 was recorded as arson.
Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted
here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
Reported cause
Fires
Natural
3
Recreation and ceremony
2
Debris and open burning
2
Railroad operations and maintenance
1
Smoking
1
Equipment and vehicle use
1
Power generation/transmission/distribution
1
Arson/incendiarism
1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
1
The most recent of
them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service
that recorded it.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. Museums hold 904 specimens
collected within 10 miles of Lock No. 26 between 1867 and
1975: 788 Animalia, 66 Plantae, 49 Fungi, 1 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown.
Collected by (no collector listed), A. Black, A. Hall 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 federal mineral resources record lists
6 workings within 5 miles of Lock No. 26: 6 past producers.
None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the
map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring
settlement's page 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
pending.
From the nomination file
452 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 reproduced in full on its own page, word for word and 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.
Quoted from the National Register nomination
for reference 79000302, 4 pages, held by the National Archives in Record
Group 79. See the
catalogue record.
Listed places nearby
6 within 8 miles
Other National Register properties close
enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both
positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties
to their map sheets.
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.
Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.
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.
Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
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