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Bryn Mawr

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983. 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

“Clark is the son of Anson Clark, and was bom in Granville township July n, 1825. He is essentially of New England origin, his father and mother both being born there, the former in Granville, Massachusetts, and the latter in Burlington, Vermont In 1835 his father removed to Hartford township, and there gradually opened up a farm aided by the subject of this sketch, until he reached maturity, meanwhile enjoying the benefits of such schools as then existed in the remote township of this county.”

History of Licking County, Ohio: Its Past and Present (1881). Machine-read text.

one of 52 National Register listings in Licking County · listed in 1983 · category: Building.

Sources: the county history on the Internet Archive · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. 3758 Lancaster Rd., SW, Granville, 43023
  • When was it listed? 1983-03-29
  • Category. building
  • Township. Union township
  • National Register reference number. 83001991 - 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.

The ground it stands on

96,280 words

The chapter on Union Township in History of Licking County, Ohio: Its Past and Present, published 1881 names Granville. This is what it says, exactly as the scans read.

Abbott, Judge Elizur, a prominent pioneer of Granville, died October 4, 1878, at the ripe age of seventy eight years. During most of his life he took an active part in political, social and religious matters, and was a highly esteemed citizen. He served as associate judge from 1850 to 1852.

Passage source: History of Licking County, Ohio: Its Past and Present, published 1881.

Ashley, John, farmer, post office, Granville, Licking county, Ohio. Mr. Ashley was born in the county of Montgomeryshire, parish of Beat House, in North Wales, on the fourteenth day of June, 1814. His education was that obtained in the common schools of his native country. He was reared a farmer and has made farming his voca- :ion through life. In 1840 he migrated to Am-

Passage source: History of Licking County, Ohio: Its Past and Present, published 1881.

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 Union Township - 96,280 words on its settlement, mills, schools and churches.

Fires near this property

1 since 2020

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Bryn Mawr between 2020 and 2020, burning about 0 acres in total. None 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
Smoking1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
15 April 2020Smokingunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15709

Every fire recorded in Licking County

Specimens collected near this property

12 of 3,025 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 3,025 specimens collected within 10 miles of Bryn Mawr between 1843 and 1975: 2,682 Animalia, 260 Fungi, 54 Plantae, 26 Protozoa, 3 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. Gray; W. S. Sullivant, A. P. M., A. P. Morgan 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 Charadrius vociferus vociferus Linnaeus, 1758Charadrius vociferus vociferus Linnaeus, 17581884F. S. Robinson
Specimen of Cylindrosporium Grev., 1822Cylindrosporium Grev., 18221893unknownLicking Reservoir
Specimen of Gibberella saubinetii (Durieu & Mont.) Sacc.Gibberella saubinetii (Durieu & Mont.) Sacc.1893J.B. EllisGranville
A photograph of the species Helodium paludosum, not of this specimenHelodium paludosum (Austin) Austin ex Broth.1843Asa Gray; W. S. Sullivantin Cranberry Marsh, northern Ohio
A photograph of the species Hypnum paludosum, not of this specimenHypnum paludosum (Hedw.) P.Beauv.1843A. Gray; W. S. Sullivantin Cranberry Marsh, northern Ohio
A photograph of the species Bonasa umbellus, not of this specimenBonasa umbellus (Linnaeus, 1766)1853Mack, D. (Don)Eden Twp, Licking, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Philomachus pugnax, not of this specimenPhilomachus pugnax (Linnaeus, 1758)1872Jasper, T. (Theodore)Buckeye Lake, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Pelecanus erythrorhynchos, not of this specimenPelecanus erythrorhynchos Gmelin, 17891874not recordedLicking Reservoir, Licking, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Calidris canutus, not of this specimenCalidris canutus rufa (A.Wilson, 1813)1878Savage, E. (Ed)Buckeye Lake Reservoir, Licking, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Lophodytes cucullatus, not of this specimenLophodytes cucullatus (Linnaeus, 1758)1878not recordedLicking Reservoir, Licking, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Aix sponsa, not of this specimenAix sponsa (Linnaeus, 1758)1880not recordedLicking Reservoir, Licking, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Anas americana, not of this specimenAnas americana J.F.Gmelin, 17891880not recordedBuckeye Lake Reservoir, Licking, Ohio, USA

All 3,025 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Storms near this property

32 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Granville, the town this property stands in, in 32 storm reports between 1995 and 2026: 26 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 2 flash flood, 1 heavy rain. 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
February 2024Thunderstorm WindGranville$50,000Numerous trees were uprooted and several buildings were damaged at Lake Hudson near Granville.
July 2000Thunderstorm WindGranville$50,000Thunderstorm winds knocked down from 200 to 300 trees on a 5 mile path north and northeast of Granville. Nickel size hail also occurred in Newark.
July 2017Thunderstorm WindGranville$40,000Numerous trees were downed in the Granville area. A few barns were also damaged and/or destroyed and a home just south of town was damaged.
July 2003Thunderstorm WindGranville$30,000Numerous trees and power poles were downed.
February 2011Thunderstorm WindGranville$24,000Twelve power poles were snapped due to damaging thunderstorm winds.
June 2010Thunderstorm WindGranville$12,000Numerous power poles and trees were reported down. A few roofs were damaged and the main antenna at the 911 center was bent.
May 2004Thunderstorm WindGranville$10,000Numerous trees were downed from Granville to Newark. A tree fell on a car in Granville. Quarter size hail also occurred.
August 2004Thunderstorm WindGranville$10,000Numerous trees were downed from Denison University into Newark. A few trees fell on parked automobiles, causing minor damage.
March 2012Flash FloodGranville$5,000Heavy rainfall caused flash flooding in the area. There were numerous reports of water flowing over roads in Union Township, Hebron, and the Buckeye Lake area. One woman was trapped in a car due to high water.
July 1997Thunderstorm WindGranville$5,000Numerous trees downed.
April 2026Thunderstorm WindGranville$4,000A tree fell onto power lines.
April 2026Thunderstorm WindGranville$4,000Several trees were downed near the intersection of Burg Street and New Burg Street.
May 2022Thunderstorm WindGranville$4,000Several trees were downed in the Granville area.
May 2018Thunderstorm WindGranville$3,000Several trees were downed in the Granville area.
July 2017Thunderstorm WindGranville$3,000A few trees were downed in the Newark and Granville areas.
May 2013Thunderstorm WindGranville$3,000Trees and power lines were reported down in the area due to thunderstorm winds.
June 2012Thunderstorm WindGranville$3,000Trees were downed due to damaging thunderstorm winds.
June 2005Thunderstorm WindGranville$3,000Several large limbs were knocked down.
June 2008HailGranville$3,000no account filed
September 2022Thunderstorm WindGranville$2,000A couple of trees were downed in the Granville area.
July 2017Thunderstorm WindGranville$2,000Trees were downed on Welsh Hills Road.
May 2019Thunderstorm WindGranville$1,000A tree was downed onto Cambria Mill Road.
July 2013Thunderstorm WindGranville$1,000One tree was reported down at Highway 16 and Cherry Valley Road due to thunderstorm winds.
November 2013Thunderstorm WindGranville$1,000A tree was blown down and blocking a road due to thunderstorm winds.
October 2018Thunderstorm WindGranville$500Multiple wires were knocked down at Burg Street and Thornewood Drive.
July 2013Heavy RainGranville-Minor street and low lying flooding was occurring due to heavy rainfall.
June 2010Thunderstorm WindGranville-A trained spotter estimated the wind gust.
July 2002Flash FloodGranville-High water washed out a berm on State Route 661.
April 2011Thunderstorm WindGranville-no account filed
June 2011HailGranville-no account filed
September 2010Thunderstorm WindGranville-no account filed
July 1995HailGranville-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Licking 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

2,672 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.

Statement of significance

(in one paragraph) in central Ohio. it again changed use and served as a nursing home for the aged population of the - - communications The building is a significant example of the "Italian Villa"style from - commerce ident of the Central Ohio Railroad part of the Baltimore and Ohio system). By 193l the house had gone through a succession of owners and became the - art - archeology-prehistoric . community planning - archeology-historic X architecture . exploration/settlement - philosophy . industry the mid-nineteenth century. Its formal symmetry, round-arched windows, jecting first-floor bays, bracketed cornice, and 1ow-pitched hipped roof ro- 1920s, is significant-in its own right. area.

Its builder was Elias Fassett (1797-1863) who, in 1856, became the pres- 1600-1699 1400-1499 1851-1854 Specific dates property of an order of Franciscan Sisters who hoped to establish a school for restaurant.It is identified by the general public as a major historic landmark Granville area. Granville Township is an area with many fine examples of combine to make ita prime specimen.The later alterations--including the Acreage of nominated property - Quadrangle name _ Granville, Ohio Quadrangle scale 1:24,000 corner ofepraperty, boundary extends 250 feet west to rear of property, then 200 feet south - State 11.

The whole case file for this property - 2,672 words, 23 pages, reproduced complete.

Quoted from the National Register nomination for reference 83001991, 23 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
Colony Burying Ground, Old2.1 miles2005
Rose, Capt. Levi, House2.2 miles1980
St. Luke's Episcopal Church2.2 miles1976
Avery-Hunter House2.3 miles1979
Buxton Inn2.3 miles1972
Stanbery, Edwin, Office2.4 miles1978

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 83001991 in Record Group 79.
Licking CountyAll 52 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.
  • 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.