Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in
1980. 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
“For some time the youth enjoyed no other means of acquiring knowledge. Cutler took the United States Gazette, at that time the only newspaper taken in the settlement ; and that, except by fortunate accident, did not arrive much oftener than once in three months." Steps were taken, at an early day, to form a circulating library.”
History of Athens County, Ohio : and, Incidentally, of the Ohio Land Company and the First Settlement of the State at Marietta, with Personal and Biographical Sketches of the Early Settlers, Narratives of Pioneer Adventures, Etc. (1869). Machine-read text.
one of 19 National Register listings in Athens County · listed in 1980 · category: Building · one of 1 National Historic Landmarks in Athens County.
National Register reference number.80002937- 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.
What happened here
An account from the chapter on Athens township, The inset identifies its exact
source book and publication year.
fired at and wounded the old bear, and then, wishing to see his dog kill one of the cubs, laid down his gun and. hissed his dog on to attack the cub - the old bear and other cub beating a retreat. Boyles, becoming interested in the fight between his dog and the cub, had approached near them, when he was disagreeably startled by seeing the old bear return, brought by the cries of the cub, and place herself between him and his gun.
Athens county - a county which, one of the earliest organized in Ohio, contains, perhaps, a greater number of surviving pioneers than any other in the state except Washington. The desire, on the part of these pioneers, to see preserved in a somewhat connected form the annals of the first settlement of the county and of their own labors and struggles in founding society here, is not an unnatural one. '^Near is thy forgetfulness of all things," said Marcus Aurelius, in one of his aphorisms, ^' and near the forgetfulness of thee by all." With something of this feeling,^ it is, perhaps, that the old always dwell with such keen pleasure on the events and associations of their early life. Conscious of approaching change and of waning strength, they love period when the eye was bright, the brain active, and the step elastic. There is, also, a feeling among men that the record of a well-spent and useful life, even if humble, deserves to be remembered. They derive a pardonable pleasure from the thought that posterity will not wholly ignore nor forget them.
It is in recognition of this feeling that these pages have been written. To preserve some account of the lives and labors of the early settlers, who bore so honorable a part in converting a wilderness into a great commonwealth, and to rescue from total oblivion some matters that seem worthy of being narrated, is the modest object of this sketch concerning the history of Athens county.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 28 fires within 5 miles of Herrold, Thomas Jefferson, House and Store between
2006 and 2020, burning about 41 acres in total. 1 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
12
Debris and open burning
9
Power generation/transmission/distribution
3
Equipment and vehicle use
2
Natural
1
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 1,295 specimens
collected within 10 miles of Herrold, Thomas Jefferson, House and Store between 1896 and
1975: 1,086 Animalia, 152 Plantae, 47 Fungi, 4 Unrecorded, 4 Protozoa, 1 Chromista, 1 Bacteria. 12 distinct Species records are shown.
Collected by A. D. Selby, A. H. Blickle, Auburn E. Brower 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 National Weather Service names
Athens, the town this property stands in, in 71 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 41 thunderstorm wind, 21 hail, 3 flash flood, 2 lightning.
The reports record 8 injuries. 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 wind gusts of 40 to 50 mph caused tree damage and collapsed a county fair tent. The tent collapsed during the swine judging, with as many as 400 people inside. Many of those caught in the tent, appeared stunned, but calm. Eight people received minor injuries. No animals were hurt. One witness said., " It was the best example I've seen of everyone working together." The nearby anemometer at the Scalia Lab on the Ohio University campus reported a wind gust of 41 mph. In a related incident, an indirect death occurred while a 74 old man lost control of his tractor and it overturned. He was trying to take shelter from the midday storm. He was 60 feet from his residence on Hooper Ridge Road, near Amesville.
Numerous large trees and branches were blown down in the city. The Emergency Management Agency reported 2 houses were severely damaged by fallen trees. Trees also fell across roads, sidewalks, driveways, and yards. Electrical power was lost.
An EF1 tornado with maximum winds up to 100 mph touched down near Angel Ridge Road in Athens County. The tornado tracked east-northeast crossing Gura Road, Long Run Road, and North Coolville Ridge Road before lifting just past Kincade Road. Damage was limited to snapped and uprooted trees and some snapped power poles along the path, with the worst damage occurring in a 300 yard wide swath along Long Run Road. This is the seventh documented tornado in Athens County and the first since 2018.
Numerous trees were downed throughout the city of Athens. The Athens County airport reported a wind gust of 58 miles per hour around the time these trees were downed.
The Hocking River at Athens rose out of its 20 foot flood stage late in the afternoon on February 19th. The river remained above its flood stage for only a brief period of time and was back in its banks that evening. Low lying areas around the river and the nearby campground observed minor flooding between Athens and Coolville while the Hocking River was out of its banks.
The Hocking River at Athens exceeded its flood stage of 20 feet early in the morning of April 5th, then continued to rise to a crest of around 20.8 feet the next morning. The river slowly fell back below flood stage early in the morning on the 7th. Low areas, the campground, and private camps along the river between Athens and Coolville began to flood during the time the river was out of its banks. Low sections of Harmony Road and baseball fields in Nelsonville also flooded.
Flooding was observed on Strouds Road, State Route 690, and State Route 550 between State Routes 690 and 329. A van was stranded in flood water at Sand Rock Road in Amesville. Another vehicle became stranded on State Route 690.
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
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From the nomination file
2,032 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
two story frame addition which wasnattached. These structures shed down spout. In 1960, the brick building on lot 296 collapsed, leaving the frame structure and a portion of a brick wall. C. SECOND FLOOR ADDED across the street, next to a cemetery. The area is a secondary commer- CONDITION DESCRIPTION EXCELLENT RUINS binations, XUNALTERED CHECK ONE The building is located on the corner of a three-way intersection, ginal four chimneys, and ornate wooden bracketssupporting the eaves, long hooded windows andhthree major frontal openings. The original structure acquired a one-story frame shed soon story detached building housed a grocery store and meat packing plant X_FAIR - UNEXPOSED on the main floor, and the top two floors were the Herrold residence.
The low pitched truncated hip roof is has two of the ori- B. ORIGINAL FRAMED SHED after construction. cial zone, four blocks from the CBD, featuring store and resident com- Herrold, a member of a prominent family in Athens County. The three D. ATTACHMENT OF APPITION FROM ARJOINING LOT E. BRICK WALL REMAINING FROM COLLAPSED BUILPING F. LOCATION OF COLLAPSED BUILDING The archetectural style is Victorian Italianate as adapted for commer- This frame addition was then extended to two Thomas Jefferson Herrold House and Store was built in l882 by Mr. AREAS OF
Statement of significance
County in 1798, settling in Ames Township. Traveling with another family, the children and livestock, while the men traveled by canoes loaded with supplies Christopher died in 1823, leaving his widow and twelve children, one of the dam at the west end of Athens in 1807, and in 1812 built the mill, now known Joseph Herrold, born February 2, 1809, was only twelve when his father died. He went to work as a farm hand for $8/month, and then on to build bridges, bought and operated a salt mine, coal mine and in 1840, purchased the mill from Captain In 1880, William Henry Herrold, Joseph's son, became the owner of the mill. He operated it until 1912 when he sold it to Ed S. White, whose family still own White, and he rebuilt it in 1913.
1500-1599 1700-1799 1600-1699 INVENTION POLITICS/GOVERNMENT ARCHEOLOGY-HISTORIC Herrold CONSERVATION ARCHITECTURE ART PERIOD SIGNIFICANCE _EXPLORATION/SETTLEMENT 1900- RELIGION AGRICULTURE SCIENCE THEATER SCULPTURE MILITARY _PHILOSOPHY ARCHEOLOGY-PREHISTORIC _ENGINEERING INDUSTRY _COMMUNICATIONS Christopher and Martha Cable Herrold arrived from Pennsylvania into Athens MUSIC _1400-1499 _PREHISTORIC The Herrold family played a major role in the history and industry of Athens of their influence. _EDUCATION Joseph was a true entreprenour.His efforts in bringing prosperity to Athens County. The building at 234 West Washington is the last remaining physical evidence which was Joseph Herrold.Martha remarried Captain Silas Bingham.Silas was up the Hocking River and Federal Creek. as Whites Mill.
was another son of Joseph Herrold. Earlier in his life he worked with his children.She died in 1849 and he remarried Mrs.0rpha Baker.
Quoted from the National Register nomination
for reference 80002937, 24 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.
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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