Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987. 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 17 National Register listings in Jefferson County · listed in 1987 · category: Building · one of 1 National Historic Landmarks in Jefferson County.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
An account from the chapter on Steubenville township, The inset identifies its exact source book and publication year.
AWFUL ACCIDENT---One of the most horrible accidents on the Panhandle R.R. for some years occurred near Coshocton Tuesday evening. . . in which WHEELER BURGESS was fatally injured, JOHN CURN and ROBERT DAVIS of THOS. FRITH's crew of stone bridge builders from this city were killed. . . (men were riding on a hand car, overtaken by train, these three had no time to jump from car).
This property stands in Steubenville Township. Genealogical Selections from the Steubenville Weekly Gazette, 1891: Steubenville, Jefferson County, Ohio, published 1891 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 Steubenville Township - 58,298 words on its settlement, mills, schools and churches.
Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Central High School between 2000 and 2015, burning about 3 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 were 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 3 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 2 |
| Smoking | 1 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 13 August 2002 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | West Virginia Division of Forestry | BETHANY PIKE/GREENS RUN RD. |
| 19 April 2003 | Misuse of fire by a minor | 1.0 acres | West Virginia Division of Forestry | CROSS CREEK RD. |
| 1 April 2015 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 686 |
| 1 April 2014 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | West Virginia Division of Forestry | CHAPMAN HEIGHTS |
| 9 March 2000 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | West Virginia Division of Forestry | CROSS CREEK |
| 7 February 2002 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | West Virginia Division of Forestry | BRINKER RD. |
| 22 October 2001 | Smoking | under an acre | West Virginia Division of Forestry | SMITH OIL |
| 29 January 2002 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | West Virginia Division of Forestry | WELLSBURG |
Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 516 specimens collected within 10 miles of Central High School between 1836 and 1974: 295 Animalia, 179 Plantae, 41 Fungi, 1 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. W. Cusick, Allison W. Cusick, BANKS, C S 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 | Vitis aestivalis Michx. | 1836 | Jewett | |
 | Polygonum erectum L. | 1902 | Kellerman, W.A. | Fernwood, Jefferson Co., Ohio |
 | Puccinia pimpinellae (F.Strauss) Link | 1902 | W. A. Kellerman | |
 | Betula lenta L. | 1877 | Wertz, H.W. | Buffalo Creek near Wheeling |
 | Carex hirsutella Mack. | 1877 | Mertz, H.N. | Steubenville |
 | Dichanthelium acuminatum subsp. fasciculatum (Torr.) Freckmann & Lelong | 1877 | Mertz, H.N. | Steubenville |
 | Dichanthelium latifolium (L.) Harvill | 1877 | Mertz, H.N. | Steubenville |
 | Dichanthelium sphaerocarpon (Elliott) Gould | 1877 | Mertz, H.N. | Steubenville |
 | Elymus hystrix L. | 1877 | Mertz, H.N. | Steubenville |
 | Fagus grandifolia Ehrh. | 1877 | Guttenberg, H.G. | Wellsburg |
 | Galium circaezans Michx. | 1877 | Guttenberg, G. | near Steubenville |
 | Hypericum mutilum L. | 1877 | Mertz, H.N. | Steubenville |
All 516 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.
Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Central High School: 4 producers, 1 plant. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Iron, Zirconium, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Iron, Chromium. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| (Facility) Steubenville Smelter | Iron, Chromium | Plant | ||
| Fairfax Dredge | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Ohio Ferro-Alloys/ Brilliant, Ohio | Zirconium | Producer | ||
| Wheeling-Pgh/ Mingo Junction, Ohio | Iron | Producer | ||
| Wheeling-Pittsburgh/ Steubenville | Iron | Producer |
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 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.
summary paragraph yes alterations/integrity resubmission Accessible dates ruins clarity Category Status REJECT Discipline OHIO Reviewer deteriorated Recom./Criteria RETURN completeness fair Jefferson County boundary selection Substantive Review: 3-17-87 Working No. owner objection Condition Reviewer's comments: Ownership NR decision unexposed ACCEPT 8.
: architecturally significant in Mingo Junction.A side addition to Central growth of the community during the 1920s and 30s when the population was Central High School meets National Register Criterion C.The building is Central High School significant for its intact Jacobethan Revivalarchitectural style and for High School was built in 1957 in a complementary scale and with similar Indian Creek Local School District nearing 5,000. city's first high school.Built in 1929,Central High School was character of the building. separate high school to serve Mingo Junction and illustrates the rapid location on either side of "School Way" on Church Hill. The high school materials and workmanship. Jefferson Co., OH 1. Commercial Street Keeper 2. North Hill Historic 3. Central High School 4.
Central Public School 5. St. Agnes Roman . Date/Signature Attest Expires Name District Thematic Group Continuation sheet State Inventory-Nomination Form Historic District Page Item number Multiple Resource Area National Register of Historic Places Catholic Church dnr-11 Nomination/Type of Review National Park Service Mingo Junction MRA United States Department of the Interior NPS Form 10-900-a 10-31-87 (3-82) WASO Form - 177 UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR ("R" June 1984) NATIONAL PARK SERVICE NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES EVALUATION/RETURN SHEET Central High School (Mingo Junction MRA) Fed. Reg.
Date: o2 Date Due: _ nomination by person or local government Federal Agency: - Lappeal I sample J request - see continuation sheet Nomination returned for: - _ technical corrections cited below _substantive reasons discussed below 1. Name 2. Location 3. Classification Present Use Public Acquisition 4. Owner of Property 5. Location of Legal Description 6. Representation in Existing Surveys Has this property been determined eligible?
The whole case file for this property - 1,192 words, 9 pages, reproduced complete.
Quoted from the National Register nomination for reference 87000471, 9 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Central Public School | under 500 feet | 1987 | |
 | Carnegie Library of Steubenville | 2.5 miles | 1992 |
 | First Methodist Episcopal--Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Church | 2.6 miles | 2006 |
| Ohio Valley Clay Company | 2.8 miles | 1979 | |
 | Steubenville YMCA Building | 2.9 miles | 1982 |
| Market Street Section, Retaining Wall and Water Trough | 3.2 miles | 1992 |
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 87000471 in Record Group 79. |
| Jefferson County | All 17 listed properties in this county. |
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