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East Toledo Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996. 7 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1900.

From the record

One of 94 National Register listings published here for Lucas County · listed in 1996 · category: District.

Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

  • Address. Roughly bounded by Front, Platt, Starr, and Spring Grove, Toledo
  • When was it listed? August 1996
  • Category. district
  • Also known as. East Toledo MPS
  • National Register reference number. 96000831 - 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.

Mines and quarries near this property

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of East Toledo Historic District: 4 producers, 2 past producers, 1 plant. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Iron, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Limestone, General, Sulfur. 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
(Facility) Toledo Refinery GulfSulfurPlant
Lula Quarry LimestoneLimestone, GeneralPast Producer
White Brothers Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
White Brothers Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Ferro Corp Ottawa Chemical DivIronProducer
Interlake Inc/ Toledo, OhioIronProducer
Toledo Pickling & Steel Service IncIronProducer

Every working recorded in Lucas County

Newspapers printed here

8 papers

8 papers published in this town, digitised by the Library of Congress and free to read. Every page is searchable, so a name or a street can be looked for directly in what the town printed about itself at the time.

NewspaperPublished
Ameryka Echo1902 to 1971
Toledo Union Journal1942 to Current
Ameryka W Toledo I Kuryer Clevelandski1892
Ameryka W Toledo1891 to 1892
Ameryka1893 to 1902
Ameryka1889 to 1891
Toledo1931 to 1971
Toledo Hungarian-American Weekly1930 to 1931

Maps showing this location

7 surveys

United States Geological Survey topographic sheets whose coverage includes this point. Matched by taking the middle of the area the National Park Service maps for this listing, then testing that coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet.

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
Yondota Historic District0.2 miles1996
East Toledo Main Street Historic District0.4 miles2025
East Side Commercial Block0.6 miles1976
Spring Grove Historic District0.7 miles1996
Toledo Traction Company Power Station1.1 miles2003
Riverview1.2 miles2012

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 96000831 in Record Group 79.
Lucas CountyAll 94 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.
  • 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.