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
“falls of the Muskingum river, nine miles below Zanesville, before that locality was inhabited by any white people. The Indians had one or two villages near by, and for a time Duncan carried ona little trade or barter with them, and was friendly.”
History of Muskingum County, Ohio, with Illustrations and Biographical Sketches of Prominent Men and Pioneers (1882). Machine-read text.
one of 70 National Register listings in Muskingum County · listed in 1979 · category: Building.
National Register reference number.79001916- 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 next event of public interest occurred March 6th, 1826, when '.'a petition was presented, signed by a number of citizens of Zanesville and Salt Creek townships, setting forth that they labor under many difficulties and disadvantages in consequence of the distance they have to go to elections, and praying that a township maj;- be struck off from part of Zanes\ille and Salt Creek townships ; and the Commissioners, believing the same necessary for the convenience of the inhabitants and township officers, do hereby order a new township, to be struck off, according to the following boundaries :
In pursuing the historic narrative, we have found the chronological order of events to serve the reader best, and hence, to begin at the beginning, the migration from Marietta to this region in quest of salt, reveals the singular fact that, notwithstanding this region was visited by that party in 1796, the first white man settled in this township in 1802, probably on account of fear of the Indians, which was dispelled soon after the establishment of the Trading Post at Zanesville had been felt as a civilizing power.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 39 fires within 5 miles of Galigher, James, House between
2002 and 2020, burning about 37 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 were 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
23
Equipment and vehicle use
5
Smoking
3
Power generation/transmission/distribution
3
Arson/incendiarism
2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
2
Recreation and ceremony
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 793 specimens
collected within 10 miles of Galigher, James, House between 1873 and
1975: 730 Animalia, 38 Plantae, 15 Fungi, 5 Protozoa, 4 Unrecorded, 1 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown.
Collected by A.E. Miller, Adams, W. (William), Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) et al., Adams, W. M. 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
5 workings within 5 miles of Galigher, James, House: 4 producers, 1 past producer.
4 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Limestone, General, Iron. 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
Zanesville, the town this property stands in, in 113 storm reports between 1994 and 2026: 62 thunderstorm wind, 26 hail, 17 flash flood, 5 flood.
The reports record 1 death. 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.
Thunderstorm winds blew down four power poles and power lines just north of Zanesville. Several trees were also reported down across the eastern part of the county.
Street flooding was reported in and near Zanesville after 1.30 inches fell in 20 minutes. Large branches were downed east of Zanesville. One branch fell on a passing motorist's car. There was no mention of any injuries.
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
3,541 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.
Description of the property
This is a 2t-story L-shaped residence in brick, laid in common bond. The found- ation is of huge sandstone, quarried on the site, rising about eighteen inches above side, but this was removed sometime after 1907, perhaps as a consequence of the 1913 corner of the house, near where an ell extends from the main portion of the house, there is a secondary entrance featuring a one-story réstrained porch: The ell itself belvedere, complete with a widow's walk, at the center of the west slope of the roof side of the first floor of the main portion of the house holds a ballroom 18'x36'. On the second floor, each of the bedrooms measures 18'x18'.There were originally ten fireplaces, including one large cooking fireplace in the kitchen. Only seven remain.
Predictably, the firefronts on the second floor fireplaces are less ornate than those on the first. Most of the doorways are of the four-panel style, and are adorned with winding stairway with a subdued cherry balustrade. All of the building materials used in the construction of the house originated on the property, except for the slate and garage, 12'x20', built of paving brick (from the Harris Brick Factory In Zanesville); CONDITION UNEXPOSED UNALTERED XALTERED CHECK ONE _DETERIORATED many of the original accoutrements.From the first floor hallway springs a handsome X.EXCELLENT _FAIR -GOOD through a trabeated door with a fixed transom and movable sidelights. The house has a frontage of forty-six feet.
At one time a wooden 2-story porch graced the front ground floor in the vicinity of the ell. A 1-story frame, shed-roof addition has window glass, which was transported upriver from Pittsburg by steamboat.
The James Galigher House is an outstanding example.of midwest brick vernacular owners could enjoy agricultural well-being, overland travel, and river travel. Galigher Adaline Lee, daughter of John Lee, a prominent merchant-farmer of West Zanesville. and James worked with his father until 1850, when he moved out of town to his then- ,children, and eventually belonged to Wheeler Stevens, a well-known wholesale grocer owners took posséssion of the property in 1954, and began restoration of the home. second quarter of the nineteenth century.
1848 1500-1599 1600-1699 1700-1799 COMMERCE COMMUNICATIONS ART INVENTION EDUCATION BUILDER/ARCHITECT SIGNIFICANCE ARCHEOLOGY-PREHISTORIC X1800-1899 ARCHEOLOGY-HISTORIC LAW ENGINEERING PERIOD AGRICULTURE THEATER XARCHITECTURE MILITARY XEXPLORATION/SETTLEMENT INDUSTRY James Galigher _POLITICS/GOVERNMENT _TRANSPORTATION _CONSERVATION -1400-1499 LITERATURE _PREHISTORIC ECONOMICS -PHILOSOPHY _SCIENCE _RELIGION -1900- James Galigher's father established the first hat factory in the Muskingum County seat, today as an outstanding example of single-family residential architecture from the new riverside home.He died in 1881.The property passed into the hands of Galigher's structed early in the life of Wayne Township,.and was no doubtsituated so that its 9
Quoted from the National Register nomination
for reference 79001916, 22 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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