National Register reference number.79001833- 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.
Then and now
1907 to 1984
The ground this property stands on, surveyed
77 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are
United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.
It is said that Berne Township was named in honor of the Canton of Berne, in Switzerland, by Samuel Carpenter, at the time of its organization, a citizen. There are two post-offices in the township - Sugar Grove, eight miles below Lancaster,
Judge Joseph Stukey built a grist-mill on Rush Creek, just at the foot of what is now Sugar Grove, at a very early period. Mr. Stukey will be remembered as having been one of the Associate Common Pleas Judges for Fairfield County. He served a number of years, embracing the year 1840. He died several years ago.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 13 fires within 5 miles of Crawfis Institute
between 2003 and 2020, burning about 81 acres in total. None started naturally. None 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
Debris and open burning
7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
3
Smoking
1
Equipment and vehicle use
1
Power generation/transmission/distribution
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 2,520 specimens
collected within 10 miles of Crawfis Institute between 1839 and 1975: 1,836 Animalia, 412 Fungi, 258 Plantae, 7 Protozoa, 5 Unrecorded, 2 Chromista.
12 distinct Species records are shown.
Collected by A. Schrader, Angerman, C. (Carl) & Triplehorn, C. A. (Charles A.), Asa Gray; W. S. Sullivant 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
7 workings within 5 miles of Crawfis Institute: 4 past producers, 3 producers.
3 still produce. 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.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Sugar Grove, the town this property stands in, in 19 storm reports between 2000 and 2025: 14 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail, 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.
United States Geological Survey topographic
sheets whose coverage includes this point. Matched by taking the coordinate the National Park Service records for this property, then
testing that coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet.
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.
Description of the property
located on the roof. The building is beautifully situated on a hilltop surrounded by trees and are located in the center of the east and west elevations.Both have double The building projections measure 3by 2bays.The segmental arched entrances Areas of Significance-Check and justify below - prehistoric - archeology-historic _ conservation - science _ agriculture _ economics - sculpture x architecture X education _ social/ .engineering .music _exploration/settlement - philosophy _ theater 22 politics/government .transportation .. other (specify) Crawfis Institute is an excellent, well preserved example of a late 19th simple, straightforward and dignified.
The separation of the bays, segmental arched openings, the cupola, the fine stonework in the foundation and the The building is named after John Crawfis, donor of the land and school, who was 1600-1699 1500-1599 1400-1499 1700-1799 commerce 1800-1899 industry Builder/Architect invention humanitarian Period military Specific dates 1900- literature Crawfis Institute holds special
Statement of significance
(in one paragraph) of the hill. -art - archeology-prehistoric - community planning _ landscape architecture _ religion 1889 interior finishes-are worthy of mention. The building survives today virtually unaltered since 1889.The design is The idyllic secluded hilltop closed as a school.The Grange continues to maintain and use the building 9.
Quoted from the National Register nomination
for reference 79001833, 13 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.
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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