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.
one of 295 National Register listings in Franklin County · listed in 1979 · category: Building · one of 3 National Historic Landmarks in Franklin County.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
This property stands in Washington Township. History of Franklin County [Ohio]:, published 1858 gives that township a chapter of its own.
The chapter covers the township.
Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.
Read the whole chapter on Washington Township - 333 words on its settlement, mills, schools and churches.
Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 1,446 specimens collected within 10 miles of Washington Township Voting Hall between 1804 and 1975: 1,397 Animalia, 24 Plantae, 20 Fungi, 3 Unrecorded, 2 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. Spreitzer, A. Spreitzer & W. LeGrande, A. White (Ohio State Univ.) 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.
| Image | Species | Year | Collected by | Where, as recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 | Juniperus virginiana var. virginiana | 1804 | Dr. Paddock | Worthington |
 | Platanthera psycodes (L.) Lindl. | 1805 | J. R. Paddock | Worthington |
 | Carex comosa Boott | 1809 | Collector unknown | Worthington, O. [Inferred county from precise loc.] |
 | Polioptila caerulea caerulea (Linnaeus, 1766) | 1875 | Muriealin, J | Flint? |
 | Empidonax virescens (Vieillot, 1818) | 1877 | P.N. Wheaton | Columbus |
 | Aster firmus Nees | 1890 | Wilcox, E.V. | N. Columbus |
 | Cercospora apii Fresen. | 1890 | Weed, C.M. | Experimental Station Gardens, Columbus, Ohio. |
 | Erythronium albidum Nutt. | 1890 | Richardson, H.H. | North Columbus |
 | Ameiurus nebulosus (Lesueur, 1819) | 1897 | R. Osburn & E. Williamson | Olentangy River, Franklin County, Ohio |
 | Hybopsis amblops (Rafinesque, 1820) | 1897 | R. Osburn & E. Williamson | Olentangy River, Franklin County, Ohio |
 | Labidesthes sicculus (Cope, 1865) | 1897 | R. Osburn & E. Williamson | Olentangy River, Franklin County, Ohio |
 | Minytrema melanops (Rafinesque, 1820) | 1897 | R. Osburn & E. Williamson | Olentangy River, Franklin County, Ohio |
All 1,446 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.
Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Washington Township Voting Hall: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: 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.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Darby Number 220 Limestone Quarry | Limestone, General | Past Producer | Sedimentary |
Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Amlin, the town this property stands in, in 1 storm report between 2020 and 2020: 1 lightning. 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 2020 | Lightning | Amlin | $1,000 | Lightning hit a structure at the intersection of Cosgray and Hayden Roads in Hilliard. |
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.
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.
The whole case file for this property - 300 words, 4 pages, reproduced complete.
Quoted from the National Register nomination for reference 79002880, 4 pages, held by the National Archives in Record Group 79. See the catalogue record.
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.
| Photograph | Property | Distance | Listed |
|---|---|---|---|
| Shier, Carl H., Barn | 0.3 miles | 1979 | |
| Shier, Carl H., Chicken House | 0.3 miles | 1979 | |
 | Shier, Carl H., House | 0.3 miles | 1979 |
 | Hamilton, J. L., Residence | 0.5 miles | 1979 |
| Rings, Louis, Barn #1 | 0.9 miles | 1979 | |
| Rings, Louis, Barn #2 | 0.9 miles | 1979 |
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 79002880 in Record Group 79. |
| Franklin County | All 295 listed properties in this county. |
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