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
“The South School is a historic school building in the village of Yellow Springs, Ohio, United States. Over its history of more than 150 years, it has served a wide range of purposes, although it is not used now as a school.”
Wikipedia article South School (Yellow Springs, Ohio), CC BY-SA 4.0.
one of 30 National Register listings in Greene County · listed in 1989 · category: Building · one of 1 National Historic Landmarks in Greene County.
National Register reference number.89001459- 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.
Miami township was organized on the 8th day of June, 1808, being taken from Bath and Xenia townships. Its northwest corner was in the present Mad River township. Clark county, in the south line of Champaign county, two miles north of the present nurtheast corner of Bath townshii). From this point the west hne of Miami extended south seven miles to the southern line of Bath township : thence it extended east to the east line of the county. The present southern line of Miami is part of the original line. Extend the present southern line of Aliami two miles west and then east to the east line of the county and we shall havi the original line. ]Miami township then included in what is now Greene ctjunty, the nijrthern portions of what is now Cedarville and Ross townships, and in Clark county about one-third of Mad River township, all of Greene and one-half of ^^ladison township. The first election was held in the house of David S. Brodick at Yellow Springs.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. Museums hold 925 specimens
collected within 10 miles of South School between 1870 and
1975: 657 Animalia, 143 Plantae, 119 Fungi, 4 Protozoa, 2 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown.
Collected by ?, A JOHN, A. H. Bauer 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.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
5 workings within 5 miles of South School: 2 past producers, 2 producers, 1 plant.
3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the
map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring
settlement's page as well.
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.
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From the nomination file
7,987 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
Areas of Significance (enter categories from instructions) Cultural Affiliation Ethnic Heritage: Black Significant Person State significance of property, and justify criteria, criteria considerations, and areas and periods of significance noted above. In August of 1855, (5) William Mills, the ambitious founder of Yellow Springs, (6) chose the When it was built, the following year, the decorative details used in the brickwork were vernacular version, as it might be called, of Greek Revival style, even modest buildings style was, in the context of Greene county, particularly characteristic of Yellow Springs It is likely that the South School was built by J.W. Hamilton; almost certainly he about 1848, for more than three decades.
(10) X See continuation sheet 1858 1874 1856 1873 Architecture Education unknown Significant Dates Architect/Builder ornamented brickwork, the South School stands out among the more than a hundred existing used.corbelled pilasters and pedimented gables with corbelled detailing.With this is indicated by the fact that of the more than a hundred one-room schoolhouses built in manufactured the brick.Hamilton was a prominent builder and manufacturer of brick, from Period of Significance schoolhouses in the county.(4) It has maintained its character asa schoolhouse and stil1 Township board of Education (which included the Yellow Springs districts at the time).
the church at the corner of Whiteman Street and Xenia the Hamilton house Applicable National Register Criteria and its role in the history of the black community.Constructed in it was first standing),in addition to the South School are the Thorn House second brick white students).From 1874 to 1887 it was the school for black students.(3)With its today it is a striking and visible example of Greek Revival style.
Quoted from the National Register nomination
for reference 89001459, 45 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.
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.
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