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Photograph of Carty-Tussing House
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Carty, J.--R. J. Tussing House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989. 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 295 National Register listings in Franklin County · listed in 1989 · category: Building · one of 3 National Historic Landmarks in Franklin County.

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 2 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. 48 Elm St., Canal Winchester, 43110
  • When was it listed? 1989-08-15
  • Category. building
  • Also known as. Canal Winchester MPS
  • Township. Madison township
  • National Register reference number. 89001025 - 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

792 words

This property stands in Madison Township. History of Franklin County [Ohio]:, published 1858 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 Madison Township - 792 words on its settlement, mills, schools and churches.

Fires near this property

1 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Carty, J.--R. J. Tussing House between 2010 and 2010, burning about 1 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
Debris and open burning1

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
11 April 2010Debris and open burning1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Every fire recorded in Franklin County

Specimens collected near this property

12 of 716 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 716 specimens collected within 10 miles of Carty, J.--R. J. Tussing House between 1895 and 1975: 705 Animalia, 6 Fungi, 3 Unrecorded, 1 Plantae, 1 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Bill May, C. A. Petrovic, C. H. R. 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
Erysiphe cichoracearum DC.1895F.L. Stevens
A photograph of the species Allocapnia vivipara, not of this specimenAllocapnia vivipara (Claassen, 1924)1896not recorded
A photograph of the species Ameiurus melas, not of this specimenAmeiurus melas (Rafinesque, 1820)1897R. Osburn & E. WilliamsonMasons Run, Franklin County, Ohio
A photograph of the species Cambarus diogenes, not of this specimenCambarus diogenes Girard, 18521897R.C.O. et al.Lockbourne
A photograph of the species Cambarus robustus, not of this specimenCambarus robustus Girard, 18521897R. Osburn & E. WilliamsonAlum Creek
A photograph of the species Cambarus rusticus, not of this specimenCambarus rusticus Girard, 18521897R. Osburn & E. WilliamsonBig Walnut Creek
A photograph of the species Etheostoma camurum, not of this specimenEtheostoma camurum (Cope, 1870)1897R. Osburn & E. WilliamsonBig Walnut Creek, Franklin County, Ohio
A photograph of the species Etheostoma maculatum, not of this specimenEtheostoma maculatum Kirtland, 18401897Osburn, R. C. (Raymond Carroll)Big Walnut Creek, near confluence with Alum and Blacklick Creeks, 2.0 miles NW of Groveport OH, NW Madison Township
Etheostoma sciotense Osburn & Williamson, 18981897R. Osburn & E. WilliamsonBig Walnut Creek, tributary of Scioto River, Ohio
A photograph of the species Fundulus notatus, not of this specimenFundulus notatus (Rafinesque, 1820)1897R. Osburn & E. WilliamsonMasons Run, Franklin County, Ohio
Hybopsis dissimilis (Kirtland, 1840)1897R. Osburn & E. WilliamsonBig Walnut Creek, Franklin County, Ohio
A photograph of the species Hypentelium nigricans, not of this specimenHypentelium nigricans (Lesueur, 1817)1897R. Osburn & E. WilliamsonScioto Big Run, Franklin County, Ohio

All 716 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries near this property

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Carty, J.--R. J. Tussing House: 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Big Walnut Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Big Walnut Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Franklin 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

1,816 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

Certitying official has considered the significance of this property in relation to other properties: Areas of Significance (enter categories from instructions) Period of Significance 1874 - 1897 Significant Person Significant exterior details include the single door entry, slate roof, X Soe continuation sheet commerce Unknown architecture Cultural Affiliation North High Street Historic District. Jacob Carty Significant Dates part owner/founder of the winchester Mills. noninated individually and one example is within the boundaries of the floors, wood trin and baseboards, and central staircase with turned Architect/Builder design, all of which are brick.Three of the examples are being spindles, newel post and paneling.

This is one of four houses in the incorporated limits with Italianate Jacob Carty acquired two acres and 82 poles of land in this area in 1868 Waterloo Streets inafrane house constructed in 1840,prior to his move is said to have been a resident here in c.1926. -statewide Applicable National Register Criteria Criteria Considerations (Exceptions) 212 light double hung windows, corbeled chimneys, dentiled entablature, and front bay with cornice. Jacob Carty (1805-1897) was one of four founders of the Winchester Millg Historic Context E.2.

"Agricultural Commerce: Railroad Era, 1869-1904" as nationally Israel Julian.The Carty & Julian store was located on the Town Lot on Intact interior details include the wood early 2oth century precast concrete porch.It is also significant under High Street.As early as 1834 or 1835,Carty and Rodgers built a frame in 1868,which was 1ocated just north of this property across the Hocking 1897 and the property was sold to Rudolph Judson Tussing in 1898. OMB Aoprovel No. 1024-0018 National Park Service Description, Statement of Sig. cont. 8. Statement of Significance continued Whitehurst (Whitehurst & Carty) which becane the Whitehurst, (John) Gehn, & Co. between 1860 and 1870, and Whitehurst, Lehman & Carty in 1877.

Read the complete 1,816-word case file.

The whole case file for this property - 1,816 words, 13 pages, reproduced complete.

Quoted from the National Register nomination for reference 89001025, 13 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
Chaney, O. P., Grain Elevatorunder 500 feet1988
Columbus, Hocking Valley and Toledo Railway Depot0.1 miles1988
Zellers--Langel House0.1 miles1989
Peoples Bank Company Building0.2 miles1989
Beery, Dr. L. W., House0.2 miles1989
David's Reformed Church0.2 miles1989

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 89001025 in Record Group 79.
Franklin CountyAll 295 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.
  • 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.