Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979. 6 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1913.
From the record
“The Fulton Farm, also known as "River Bend Farm," is a historic farmstead in Shelby County, Ohio, United States. Located on the southern side of the city of Sidney, the farm is composed of five buildings spread out over an area of approximately 2 acres (0.81 ha).”
Wikipedia article Fulton Farm, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 20 National Register listings published here for Shelby County · listed in 1979 · category: Building.
National Register reference number.79001947- 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.
Clinton township is drained by the Great Miami river, which enters at the northeast corner and flows south by west, and then, running southwest, becomes for a distance of about two miles the boundary line between Clinton and Orange township. Side by side with the river flows the Miami feeder with its water supply, which it carries to the canal at Lockington. Tawawa creek enters the Miami opposite Sidney, coming from the east, while another small tributary, flowing in the same direction, joins the large stream about a mile south of the mouth of the Tawawa. Three small streams enter the Miami from the west within the bounds of the township.
Ordered, that it (the township) be divided into three districts (road); Sidney, No. 1 ; Plum Creek, No. 2 ; and Mile Creek, No. 3. No. 1 to work the road from the ford below Ruckman's mill to the public square in Sidney, the road leading to Hardin, and the one from Dingmansburg to Sidney. No. 2 to work the road from the public spuare on the road that leads up the river past Wm. Johnston's and Talbert's to the township line, and the Plum Creek road to the township line. No. 3 to work the road that leads from Sidney past Rufus Carey's to the township line, and the road from where it intersects the aforesaid road leading past Mr. Levalley's as far as the township line. John Blake supervisor district No. 1, N. Coleman of district No. 2, and a supervisor to be elected in No. 3.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. Museums hold 225 specimens
collected within 10 miles of Fulton Farm between 1897 and 1967: 185 Animalia, 21 Fungi, 18 Plantae, 1 Unrecorded.
12 distinct Species records are shown.
Collected by A. R. Gaufin, A.R. Gaufin, A.R. Gaufin, H.H. Ross 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 Fulton Farm: 3 past producers, 2 producers, 1 plant, 1 unknown.
3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Limestone, General. 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
Sidney, the town this property stands in, in 111 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 66 thunderstorm wind, 22 hail, 15 flood, 4 flash 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.
Two barns had their tin roofs removed and a wooden fence was downed around a pool along Hardin-Wapakoneta Road. Several trees and power poles were also knocked down in this vicinity.
Numerous trees and large limbs were downed across the northern half of the county. One tree fell on a vehicle and another on a house in Sidney, causing minor damage to both.
Several homes were damaged by falling trees. Numerous trees and limbs were knocked down, and a few road signs were blown over. A 63 mph gust was measured in Anna.
Roads were closed across the area due to heavy rainfall and previous snow melt. Flooding began around 0754 EST on February 28th and ended around 0900 on March 2nd. Damage estimates for February were around five-thousand dollars.
Roads were closed across the area due to heavy rainfall and previous snow melt. Flooding began around 0754 EST on February 28th and ended around 0900 EST on March 2nd. Damage estimates for March were around five-thousand dollars.
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 to the leit rear, or northeast corner, is a one-story late nineteenth century has eight course brick walls and a slate a 2/2 fixed Gothic window. The six bay north facing has single light fixed windows, a CONDITION DATE MOVED UNALTERED XEXCELLENT XALTERED CHECK ONE board siding. Adjoining these two additions on the south side is another one-story enclosed summer porch; headers.Further east is a one-story porch addition, small in scale and built with wood. has two gables, each having paired Gothic traceried windows with 5/4 lights and limestone north gable has a finial and pendant, while the south gable has finial alone.The five bay _DETERIORATED XORIGINAL SITE - UNEXPOSED from the Fulton farm.At the rear of the original building isa small fruit cellar.
-FAIR -GOOD the porch is framed by plain Roman Doric wood colus and has triglyph-1ike decorations The wooden chicken house, dating from the nineteenth century, sits atop a cinderblock roof. with asphalt shingles, metal ridging, interior corbeled chirmeys, and decorative lightning in the entablature. spiral staircase; this woodwork was built from black walnut trees which were probably cut the gable is a door with a muntined Gothic transom and radiating headers. The carriage The gables in the half-story above have contrasting window treatments.The north facing narrow rectangular 4/lDHS windows with mullion and a limestone lintel with label.The The three bay east side has a similar entry door and1/1DHS windows.The four bay south -RUINS AREAS OF
Statement of significance
/ARCHITECT Isaac T. Fulton STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE Iarmer and active in the County. In October 1055 he hosted the Shelby County Agricultural County Agricultural Association. After Fulton's death (1865 or 1866) the homestead went In 1894 John Loughlin purchased the site as a country summer cottage. Loughlin was a on an assembly line set up. At the time, the plant was the most modern and largest pro- Despite the plant's modernity and loughlin's acclaimed managerial ability, the Mary Le Ley City' has ever done more to further its interests and bring prosperity to the city and its people...." 5 continuity.
ART X1800-1899 EDUCATION SIGNIFICANCE PERIOD SCIENCE XAGRICULTURE LITERATURE THEATER 1700-1799 INVENTION MILITARY 1900- INDUSTRY 1500-1599 _EXPLORATION/SETTLEMENT _PREHISTORIC of its association with the agricultural and poultry industry. The Fulton home is one of _POLITICS/GOVERNMENT _PHILOSOPHY _TRANSPORTATION outbuildings in this style is also significant for maintaining that architectural tury the site received national attention because the Mary L.
Poultry Plant occupied the _COMMUNICATIONS Society's Fifth Annual Fair on his farm and five years later he became a trustee of the Fulton's choice of the Gothic Revival style for his house is noteworthy for this In 1896 Loughlin let a contract for the construction of his newest business enter- the most ornate pre-Civil War farmhouses extant in this county.At the turn of the cen- through the hands of John Duncan and Samuel Strahlem. _CONSERVATION _ENGINEERING -1600-1699 _1400-1499 - SOCIAL/HUMANITARIAN -ECONOMICS _SCULPTURE - RELIGION -MUSIC -LAW The Fulton farm,also know as River Bend, is a significant Shelby County site because daily.
The plant was so imaginative that the railroads ran nunerous sunmer exeursions bringing thousands of people from afar to visit the site.3 Fulton was a well-lmown local style never attained a real popularity in western Ohio.
Quoted from the National Register nomination
for reference 79001947, 20 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.
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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