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Fox Hollow

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2006. 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

“for the scattered members and their friends to go up to the house of the Lo: Accordingly, committees were appointed to mark trees from the meetii house to Wilson's and McGrew's settlements, each distant about live miles, opposite directions. Charles McDaniel, Baptist missionary, sent by English society, was the first minister in Washington Township.”

The History of Montgomery County, Ohio, Containing a History of the County; (1882). Machine-read text.

one of 117 National Register listings in Montgomery County · listed in 2006 · category: Building · one of 4 National Historic Landmarks in Montgomery County.

Sources: the county history on the Internet Archive · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 3 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. 6320 Mad River Rd., Washington Township, 45459
  • When was it listed? 2006-06-09
  • Category. building
  • Township. Washington township
  • Architectural style. Colonial Revival architecture
  • National Register reference number. 06000481 - 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

25,756 words

The chapter on Washington Township in The History of Montgomery County, Ohio, Containing a History of the County;, published 1882 names Washington Township. This is what it says, exactly as the scans read.

A native of New Jersey, he removed to Philadelphia, where he was cr< Judge of one of the courts. From that city, he removed to Kentucky from there to Washington Township. Here he remained until 1821, ant one of the leading men in the community, at one time being Associate J of the Montgomery County Court of Common Pleas. From this State, he to Fort Wayne, Ind., where he seems to have been satisfied to give n] travels and permanently locate. Judge Archer was distinctively a progrt man. for, besides his pioneer work in this State, we find him engaged in .able enterprises wherever he was located. It is generally conceded th made the first brick and built the first brick house in Fort Wayne, whe died in 1830.

Passage source: The History of Montgomery County, Ohio, Containing a History of the County;, published 1882.

The settlement having been established in Washington Township, were soon others to recognize the fertility and advantages of the place, ai the course of a very few years, many families were located in the vicin: the present town of Centerville.

Passage source: The History of Montgomery County, Ohio, Containing a History of the County;, published 1882.

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 Washington Township - 25,756 words on its settlement, mills, schools and churches.

Specimens collected near this property

12 of 476 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 476 specimens collected within 10 miles of Fox Hollow between 1835 and 1975: 319 Animalia, 88 Plantae, 60 Fungi, 4 Protozoa, 4 Chromista, 1 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A JOHN, A JOHN AND W E DUELLMAN, A. E. Foeerste 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
Specimen of Hypericum mutilum subsp. mutilumHypericum mutilum subsp. mutilum1835Joseph C. FrankGermantown
Specimen of Ambrosia artemisiifolia L.Ambrosia artemisiifolia L.1881Foerste AF
Specimen of Geaster limbatus Fr.Geaster limbatus Fr.1883A. E. FoeersteDayton
A photograph of the species Platanthera leucophaea, not of this specimenPlatanthera leucophaea (Nutt.) Lindl.1836C. W. ShortDayton
A photograph of the species Hydrophyllum macrophyllum, not of this specimenHydrophyllum macrophyllum Nutt.1838J. W. Van CleveDayton
A photograph of the species Cardamine L., not of this specimenCardamine L.1839Sanders, Alfred; J.J. Nagel, J.G. Haupt.Dayton. 1 mile east.
A photograph of the species Cassia marilandica, not of this specimenCassia marilandica L.1839Sanders, AlfredDayton
A photograph of the species Cynoglossum officinale, not of this specimenCynoglossum officinale L.1839not recordedDayton. Suburbs E.
A photograph of the species Iris versicolor, not of this specimenIris versicolor L.1839not recordedDayton. 2 mi. south
A photograph of the species Nuphar advena, not of this specimenNuphar advena (Aiton) Aiton1839Sanders, Mrs.; J.G. HauptDayton
A photograph of the species Podophyllum peltatum, not of this specimenPodophyllum peltatum L.1839Nagel, J.J.; J.G. HauptDayton. 1 m. SE
A photograph of the species Polygala verticillata, not of this specimenPolygala verticillata L.1839Sanders, Alfred [?]1 mile SE of Dayton

All 476 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 13 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 13 workings within 5 miles of Fox Hollow: 9 producers, 4 past producers. 9 still produce. 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Broadway Sand & Gravel Co. Pit #2Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Broadway Sand and Gravel IncSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Carter & Webb IncorporatedSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
East River Road PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Hilltop PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Jackson Sand Co. PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Moraine Materials Pit No 5Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Number 1 PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
South Dayton PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Southern Hills Supply, Inc. PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary

Every working recorded in Montgomery 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

6,876 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 (Mark "x" in one or more boxes for the criteria qualifying the XX A Property is associated with events that have - B Property is associated with the lives of persons - 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 Period of Significance represents a significant and distinguishable c. 1815, 1926 entity whose components lack individual -D Property has yielded, or is likely to yield information important in prehistory or history. (Mark "X" in all the boxes that apply.) Significant Person (Complete if Criterion B is marked above) - B removed from its original location. - C a birthplace or a grave. - D a cemetery.

- E a reconstructed building, object,or structure. - F a commemorative property. significance within the past 50 years. Narrative Statement of Significance (Explain the significance of the property on one or more continuation sheets.) 9.

The whole case file for this property - 6,876 words, 49 pages, reproduced complete.

Quoted from the National Register nomination for reference 06000481, 49 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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Skywood Farms0.8 miles1996
Pease Homestead1.4 miles1980
Kellog, Ethol, House1.9 miles1976
Schuter Carpenter Shop and House2.2 miles1980
Bombeck, Erma, House2.3 miles2015
Long--Mueller House3.1 miles1987

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 06000481 in Record Group 79.
Montgomery CountyAll 117 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.