Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in
1998. 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
“Lurton Dunham, born in 1805, was graduated from the Ohio Medical College and began practice in Camden about 1832. He always was regarded as a very able man, in 1840 being elected a state representative, but his name is best known as a doctor and business men.”
History of Preble County Ohio: Her People, Industries and Institutions (1915). Machine-read text.
one of 16 National Register listings in Preble County · listed in 1998 · category: Building.
National Register reference number.98000100- 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.
Beasleys branch has its source in Gasper township and also has cut its way across an intercepting ridge in its course of some three miles to its out- let in Seven-Mile creek, about a half mile north of Camden. In its course it falls some one hundred and sixty feet, which of course, would indicate rough land, until it breaks through the ridge, but not so rough or as large an area of rough land as the other two streams. Seven-Mile creek flows across the township near the middle line, and drains the entire township. From the hilltops on either side of Seven-Mile can be seen long vistas of the valley, affording some of the finest, if not the finest, pastoral scenery in the county.
One of the first settlers was David E. Hendrix, who, in 1803, settled on the land where Camden is now located and began chopping out a farm. There was born George D. Hendrix, who claimed to be the first boy bom in the county. In 1806 David Hendrix sold out and moved to Eaton, where he resided the rest of his life.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. Museums hold 859 specimens
collected within 10 miles of Camden City Hall and Opera House between 1877 and
1975: 600 Animalia, 167 Fungi, 87 Plantae, 5 Protozoa. 12 distinct Species records are shown.
Collected by ?, A.L.; Bucholtz, I., A.R. Gaufin, H.H. Ross 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 Camden City Hall and Opera House: 1 past producer, 1 producer.
1 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.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Camden, the town this property stands in, in 31 storm reports between 1995 and 2025: 16 thunderstorm wind, 6 hail, 6 flash flood, 3 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.
Portions of State Route 725 were impassable due to more than one foot of water running over the roadway. High water was also reported on Sugar Valley Drive and near Dillman Road.
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
4,585 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 - A Property is associated with events that have made a significant contribution to the broad patterns of - B Property is associated with the lives of persons significant in our past. X C Property embodies the distinctive characteristics of a type, period,or method of construction or represents the work of a master, or possesses high artistic values, or represents a significant and distinguishable entity whose components lack 1889 - ca. 1930 L D Property has yielded, or is likely to yield, information important in prehistory or history. (Mark "x" in all the boxes that apply.) -A owned by a religious institution or used for - B removed from its original location. (Complete if Criterion B is marked above) - C a birthplace or grave. - D a cemetery.
- E a reconstructed building, object, or structure. - F a commemorative property. CG less than 50 years of age or achieved significance within the past 50 years. Oxford, Ohio Contractors 9.
Quoted from the National Register nomination
for reference 98000100, 30 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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