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Morgan Thrush Farm Complex

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989. 9 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1925.

From the record

One of 343 National Register listings published here for Franklin County · listed in 1989 · 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 8 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
  • Listed as. Thrush, Morgan, Farm Complex - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
  • Address. 375 Gender Rd., 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. 89001036 - 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

1925 to 1984

The ground this property stands on, surveyed 59 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet covering Morgan Thrush Farm Complex, surveyed 1984
Topographic sheet covering Morgan Thrush Farm Complex, surveyed 1925

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

2 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Morgan Thrush Farm Complex between 2010 and 2020, burning about 1 acre 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 burning2

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
7 November 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15924

Every fire recorded in Franklin County

Specimens collected near this property

12 of 940 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 940 specimens collected within 10 miles of Morgan Thrush Farm Complex between 1892 and 1975: 925 Animalia, 8 Fungi, 3 Plantae, 3 Unrecorded, 1 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by B. Fink, Bill May, C. A. Petrovic 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
A photograph of the species Gentianopsis crinita, not of this specimenGentianopsis crinita (Froel.) Ma1892E. M. WilcoxNear Columbus, S of city
A photograph of the species Physostegia virginiana, not of this specimenPhysostegia virginiana subsp. praemorsa (Shinners) P.D.Cantino1892E. M. WilcoxNear Columbus, S of city
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

All 940 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 Morgan Thrush Farm Complex: 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

Maps showing this location

9 surveys

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.

From the nomination file

2,543 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

Applicable National Register Criteria Period of Significance Significant Dates c. 1910 Cultural Affiliation State significance of property, and justify criteria, criteria considerations, and areas and periods of significance noted above. Context E. 3. "Agricultural Connerce: Interurban-Auto Era, 1905-1938," as quarter of Section 36. After his death in 1899, his son, Morgan Thrush, & See continuation sheet architecture Unknown Architect/Builder Significant Person Significant exterior details include the unaltered brick walls, Areas of Significance (enter categories from instructions) mantel, built-in china cabinet, and period light fixtures.

for the well-preserved condition of its plan, interior and exterior projecting cornice with modillions, and brick porch.Intact interior southeast corner of Groveport Pike and Gender Road.By 1895 he expanded quarter of Section 25 and vicinity as early as 1872,situated at the southeast quarter of Section 25,and is the parcel with which the incorporated limits, only four of which are brick construction.Two Robert Thrush owned approxinately 115 ocres of faraland in the southeast details,and intact conplex of outbuilding8.

Read the complete 2,543-word case file.

The whole case file for this property - 2,543 words, 25 pages, reproduced complete.

Quoted from the National Register nomination for reference 89001036, 25 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
Parley Haffey Farm Complex0.6 miles1989
Samuel Deitz Farmhouse0.9 miles1989
Bergstresser Covered Bridge1.0 miles1974
Helpman-Chaney House1.0 miles1989
Elias Decker Farmhouse1.0 miles1989
Canal Winchester School1.1 miles2007

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 89001036 in Record Group 79.
Franklin CountyAll 343 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.