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.
Then and now
1903 to 2002
The ground this property stands on, surveyed
99 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are
United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.
19032002
Fires near this property
28 since 2006
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 28 fires within 5 miles of Thomas Jefferson Herrold 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 Thomas Jefferson Herrold 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.
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
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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