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U.S. Grant Birthplace and Grant Commemorative Sites Historic District

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

“The Grant Birthplace is a historic house museum in Point Pleasant, Monroe Township, Clermont County, Ohio, United States. Built in 1817 near a local tannery, the one-story frame house was the birthplace, on April 27, 1822, of Ulysses S.”

Wikipedia article Grant Birthplace, CC BY-SA 4.0.

one of 15 National Register listings in Clermont County · listed in 1998 · category: District.

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

The listing

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 4 objectss, 3 buildingss, 1 site, 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. NY 232 and US 52, Point Pleasant, 45153
  • When was it listed? 1998-08-06
  • Category. district
  • Township. Monroe township
  • National Register reference number. 98001013 - 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.

The ground it stands on

976 words

This property stands in Monroe Township. Atlas of Clermont County, Ohio : from Actual Surveys, published 1891 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 Monroe Township - 976 words on its settlement, mills, schools and churches.

Specimens collected near this property

12 of 185 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 185 specimens collected within 10 miles of U.S. Grant Birthplace and Grant Commemorative Sites Historic District between 1866 and 1975: 130 Animalia, 37 Fungi, 17 Plantae, 1 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A.M Bradford, Brand, Louis, Braun, E. Lucy 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 Galium concinnum, not of this specimenGalium concinnum Torr. & A.Gray1866Mohr, C.Bantam
A photograph of the species Leiothlypis peregrina, not of this specimenLeiothlypis peregrina (A.Wilson, 1811)1878Collector(s): Leonard R. FreemanLocust Corner
A photograph of the species Geothlypis formosa, not of this specimenGeothlypis formosa (A.Wilson, 1811)1896A.M BradfordBradford
A photograph of the species Obovaria retusa, not of this specimenObovaria retusa (Lamarck, 1819)1909Bureau of FisheriesOhio River, Point Pleasant
A photograph of the species Plethobasus cyphus, not of this specimenPlethobasus cyphus (Rafinesque, 1820)1909Bureau of FisheriesOhio River, Point Pleasant
A photograph of the species Aecidium Pers., not of this specimenAecidium Pers.1910C. C. M.Bantam
A photograph of the species Cladonia furcata, not of this specimenCladonia furcata (Huds.) Schrad., 17941913Braun, E. LucyBethel
A photograph of the species Usnea strigosella, not of this specimenUsnea strigosella1913Braun, E. LucyBethel
A photograph of the species Asclepias incarnata, not of this specimenAsclepias incarnata L.1917Braun, E. LucyBethel
A photograph of the species Asclepias tuberosa, not of this specimenAsclepias tuberosa L.1917Braun, E. Lucynear Bethel
Cladonia verticillata (Hoffm.) Schaer.1917Braun, E. LucyBethel
Liquidambar styraciflua L.1917Braun, E. Lucynear Bethel

All 185 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries near this property

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of U.S. Grant Birthplace and Grant Commemorative Sites Historic District: 2 past producers, 2 producers, 1 plant. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Limestone, General, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Calcium, 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
Black River Mining LimekilnStone, Crushed/Broken, CalciumPlant
Brewer Limestone QuarryLimestone, GeneralPast ProducerSedimentary
Franklin Stone PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Pendleton County UndergroundStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Point Pleasant QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Clermont County

Map coverage status

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

10,959 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

X 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. - 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 ca. 1864-1948 - 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. [* C a birthplace or grave. - D a cemetery. - E a reconstructed building, object, or structure. [x F a commemorative property.

within the past 50 years. Goller, Harsh & Davies, Columbus, OHl Narrative Statement of Significance 9.

The whole case file for this property - 10,959 words, 69 pages, reproduced complete.

Quoted from the National Register nomination for reference 98001013, 69 pages, held by the National Archives in Record Group 79. See the catalogue record.

Listed places nearby

5 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
New Richmond Water Works and Electric Station4.3 miles1993
Ross-Gowdy House4.6 miles1982
Salt House5.3 miles1976
Schafer House7.3 miles1974
Winter, William, Stone House7.5 miles1977

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 98001013 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Clermont CountyAll 15 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.
  • 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.