Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in
1990. 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
“In 1806 the family left their native state and settled at Oldtown (now Frankfort), Ross county, Ohio. In 181 5 Marks bought about two hundred and forty acres of land in Concord township, this county, near the village of Jasper Mills.”
History of Fayette County, Ohio : Her People, Industries and Institutions (1914). Machine-read text.
one of 12 National Register listings in Fayette County · listed in 1990 · category: Structure.
National Register reference number.90001118- 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.
Peter Marks was born in Pennsylvania. In 1806 the family left their native state and settled at Oldtown (now Frankfort), Ross county, Ohio. In 181 5 Marks bought about two hundred and forty acres of land in Concord township, this county, near the village of Jasper Mills. He was compelled to re-purchase his land, as it was claimed to be that of an officer of the Revolutionary War. A son of Peter Marks, Joseph, in 1828, erected a small cabin on the Washington and Staunton road. He resided there practically the remainder of his days. There was no habitation between his cabin and Buena Pista, and but three on the road running to Washington C. H., the whole country consisting of dense forest and underbrush. He cast his first vote for Andrew Jackson for President in 1822.
John B. Rowe, in the immediate vicinity of Staunton, was a famous hunter. He was never known to say that he had killed Indians, but had seen them "get down from fences," "lie down at the root of trees," or some such expression, indicating that he might have hurt them. In early days the occupation of hunter and trapper was quite common and very profitable.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. Museums hold 187 specimens
collected within 10 miles of Mark Road Bridge between 1901 and
1975: 181 Animalia, 3 Fungi, 3 Plantae. 12 distinct Species records are shown.
Collected by Bowles, P. (Pearl), Brubaker, J. A. & Higgins, Brubaker, J. A. & Link, B. 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
2 workings within 5 miles of Mark Road Bridge: 1 past producer, 1 producer.
1 still produces. What was taken out: Limestone, General, 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.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Staunton, the town this property stands in, in 7 storm reports between 2005 and 2026: 3 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 2 flood.
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.
A building and pole barn were destroyed along US Route 62. Additionally, the home on the property suffered some siding damage, and a truck sustained significant damage.
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
2,207 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
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Carol Shull, Chief Department of the Interior P.O. Box 37127 Washington, D.C. 20013-7127 New Submiss lons W. Ray Luce WRL/JW: dh SOCIETY Fayette NATIONAL Enclosures HISTORICAL REGISTER County nrohp/trans.rev Dear Carol: State Historic Preservation Officer Mark Road Bridge Pickerington Depot National Register of Historic Places Fairfield National Park Service Please contact me If you have any questions. OHIO Sincerely, appropriate notification procedures have been followed for these new Enclosed please find two (2) new National Register nominations.All the
Quoted from the National Register nomination
for reference 90001118, 26 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.
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.
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