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Photograph of Samuel Sharp House
Photograph by Tim Erskine, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Sharp, Samuel, House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982. 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

one of 49 National Register listings in Delaware County · listed in 1982 · category: Building.

Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 3 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. 7436 Horseshoe Rd., Ashley, 43003
  • When was it listed? 1982-07-29
  • Category. building
  • Township. Marlboro township
  • National Register reference number. 82003563 - 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.

Specimens collected near this property

12 of 1,469 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 1,469 specimens collected within 10 miles of Sharp, Samuel, House between 1837 and 1975: 1,271 Animalia, 96 Fungi, 88 Plantae, 6 Protozoa, 4 Unrecorded, 4 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. P. Morgan, A.P. Morgan, Adler, K. K. 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 SpeciesYear Collected by Where, as recorded
Specimen of Caeoma agrimoniae Schwein.Caeoma agrimoniae Schwein.1896F. L. StevensOhio
Specimen of Peronospora sordida Berk. & BroomePeronospora sordida Berk. & Broome1896F.L. StevensHayden Falls
Specimen of Plasmopara viticola (Berk. & M.A.Curtis) Berl. & De ToniPlasmopara viticola (Berk. & M.A.Curtis) Berl. & De Toni1896F.L. Stevens
A photograph of the species Agaricus velutipes, not of this specimenAgaricus velutipes Curtis1837J.R. Paddock
A photograph of the species Polyporus versicolor, not of this specimenPolyporus versicolor (L.) Fr.1838not recorded
A photograph of the species Equisetum arvense, not of this specimenEquisetum arvense L.1870Beardslee, H.C.Moist soil.
Vernonia maxima Small1871Collector unspecifiedScioto
A photograph of the species Ophioglossum vulgatum, not of this specimenOphioglossum vulgatum L.1873Hussey, J.
A photograph of the species Sphaeria ulmea, not of this specimenSphaeria ulmea Fr.1880W. A. KellermannOhio
A photograph of the species Accipiter cooperii, not of this specimenAccipiter cooperii (Bonaparte, 1828)1882not recordedDelaware, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Phyllosticta decidua, not of this specimenPhyllosticta decidua Ellis & Kellerm.1882KellermanOhio
unnamed1883KellermanOhio

All 1,469 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries near this property

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Sharp, Samuel, House: 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Delaware QuarryLimestone, GeneralPast ProducerSedimentary

Every working recorded in Delaware County

Storms near this property

15 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ashley, the town this property stands in, in 15 storm reports between 1994 and 2017: 14 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 1994Thunderstorm WindAshley$500,000Trees were downed. Twenty sailboats capsized in O'Shaughnessy Reservoir (Shawnee Hills area) during the storm. Many boaters had to be rescued from the water well off shore.
November 2003Thunderstorm WindAshley$15,000A barn was destroyed and numerous trees were downed along North Old State Road.
June 2008Thunderstorm WindAshley$10,000Shingles were blown off of the roofs of several homes. Yard furniture was displaced in the backyard of one of the homes.
April 2017Thunderstorm WindAshley$5,000A piece of aluminum siding was pulled from a house facade and a boat on a trailer was pushed across the yard damaging a couple of cars.
July 1997Thunderstorm WindAshley$5,000Numerous trees downed.
July 1997Thunderstorm WindAshley$5,000Numerous trees downed. An observer reported a 60 mph wind gust.
July 2014Thunderstorm WindAshley$3,000Several trees were downed in the Ashley area due to thunderstorm winds.
August 2003Thunderstorm WindAshley$3,000Trees were downed.
November 1998Thunderstorm WindAshley$3,000Trees knocked down.
May 1998Thunderstorm WindAshley$2,000Trees downed.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindAshley$1,000A power pole was knocked down.
June 1998Thunderstorm WindAshley-Winds gusted to 58 mph.
July 1998Thunderstorm WindAshley-Winds gusted to 70 mph.
August 1994HailAshley-Large hail fell in Delaware and winds were reported at 75 mph in Ashley. Trees were downed in both locations.
August 2010Thunderstorm WindAshley-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Delaware County

Map coverage status

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

1,384 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

- prehistoric _ archeology-historic X architecture .military .music X 1800-1899 .exploration/settlement -philosophy - politics/government successfully blends elements from several 19century architectural styles- the with the Italianate style. Samuel Sharp served as a captain during the Civil War and travelled extensively - at the time the house was built in 1867. 1400-1499 1600-1699 1700-1799 1500-1599 commerce transportation communications economics conservation Period engineering invention industry humanitarian theater education agriculture art literature 1900- unknown sculpture Builder/Architect social/ 8.

The whole case file for this property - 1,384 words, 11 pages, reproduced complete.

Quoted from the National Register nomination for reference 82003563, 11 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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Building at 101 North Franklin Street3.9 miles1980
Building at 223 West High Street3.9 miles1980
Building at 500 East High Street4.6 miles1980
Building at 505 East High Street4.6 miles1980
High House5.0 miles1986
Baker, John, Tavern6.2 miles2006

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 82003563 in Record Group 79.
Delaware CountyAll 49 listed properties in this county.

Provenance

  • 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.