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Wyandot Mission Church
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in
1976. 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 Wyandot Mission Church is an early 19th century Methodist church in Upper Sandusky, Ohio. The church's interior contains hand-hewn benches, dark pews, and portraits of the missionary John Stewart and his Wyandot converts.”
Wikipedia article Wyandot Mission Church, CC BY-SA 4.0.
one of 8 National Register listings in Wyandot County · listed in 1976 · category: Building.
National Register reference number.76001552- 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
218 words
The chapter on Crane Township in Past and Present of Wyandot County Ohio, published 1913 names Upper Sandusky. This is what it says, exactly as the scans read.
- The surface of the township is level and the soil remarkably fertile. The increase of population has been gradual. Among its points of interest which are shown to strangers are the Old Mission church, the Nine Oaks, Crawford's battle ground, on Section 17, just north of Upper Sandusky,
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. Museums hold 290 specimens
collected within 10 miles of Wyandot Mission Church between 1885 and
1975: 257 Animalia, 28 Fungi, 5 Plantae. 12 distinct Species records are shown.
Collected by Acker, G., Allen, J. M., Blyth & Katz 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
6 workings within 5 miles of Wyandot Mission Church: 3 producers, 3 past producers.
3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Clay. 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
Upper Sandusky, the town this property stands in, in 61 storm reports between 1993 and 2026: 39 thunderstorm wind, 17 hail, 3 flash flood, 1 funnel cloud.
The reports record 1 death. 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.
Heavy rains on July 12th through the 14th caused Tymochtee Creek to go into flood in western Wyandot County. State Route 53 was flooded by up to 6 feet of water approximately four miles west of Upper Sandusky near the intersection of Township Road 103. A 46 male apparently drove his truck into the flood waters around 2 am on July 14th. The man was later found deceased about 200 feet north of the highway. His truck was found completely submerged in the flood waters.
Thunderstorms produced a swath of large hail across the Upper Sandusky area. Some of the hail was as large as baseballs. Hundreds of vehicles and dozens of homes were damaged by this hail.
Severe thunderstorms moved across Wyandot County during the afternoon hours of June 22nd and produced wind gusts estimated to be around 70 mph. Many trees and large limbs were downed across the county. Utility poles and lines were also reported down at several locations. Many reports came from the Upper Sandusky area where several buildings sustained roof and siding damage. Three semi trucks were blown over on U.S. 23 in Upper Sandusky.
Thunderstorm downburst winds damaged a farm nine miles west of Upper Sandusky. Two barn buildings were heavily damaged. A house nearby sustained roof damage. A large tree on the property was also toppled.
Thunderstorm winds downed two trees and several large tree limbs. One of the trees landed on a house and caused minor structural damage. Fallen tree limbs also damaged two cars.
Heavy rain fell causing several feet of water to cover roadways throughout the area. State Route 53 west of Upper Sandusky was reported as being washed out during the early morning hours of the 6th.
Law enforcement officials spotted a funnel cloud two miles northwest of Upper Sandusky moving southeast at approximately 15 mph. The funnel persisted for several minutes but did not ever come in contact with the ground.
3 papers published in this town,
digitised by the Library of Congress and free to read: 0 issues,
0 pages. 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.
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
1,709 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.
Description of the property
The Wyandot Mission Church is built of cut limestone on a stone foundation. It now boarded over with plaques bearing the names of those buried in the cemetery The entraces are original. carved hardwood. Originally a one square mile tract contained the mission school, farm and the CONDITION DESCRIPTION DETERIORATED FAIR GOOD UNALTERED CHECK ONE identical doorways which are placed toward the outer sides of the building.These altar is not original but was added during the restoration and is constructed of consists of a single story and is gable roofed. The north facade has two recessed, member of the complex.The property now consists of three acres. doorways has stone lintels and steps and the recesses have paneled wood trim. after that time.It was restored by the Methodist Church in 1889.
At that time The church interior is one room with exposed stone walls, wide plank floors and the windows were enlarged and the wood shakes of the roof were repaced with slate. _UNEXPOSED cornices.There is a single chimney on the south end of the gable roof. church building.The farm and school are gone and the church is the only surviving -RUINS The east and west sides have four, double-hung windows. These have stone lintels DATE and sills and solid wood shutters. The south end has two windows which are The church was used for missionary work until l843 and gradually fell into disrepair which surrounds the building. The roof is slate and there are simple boxed hewn benches.There isa single fireplace in the rear of the building.The AREAS OF
Statement of significance
Stewart, born in 1786 of free Black parents in Powhatan County, Virginia, in 1816 he worked among the Wyandot Indians in Upper Sandusky, Ohio and in 1819 a result of Stewart's work, the first official Methodist mission to the wife and for the next three years, Stewart and Finley operated a school for 1400-1499 1824 1700-1799 Indian mission.
ARCHEOLOGY-HISTORIC AGRICULTURE PERIOD PHILOSOPHY COMMERCE POLITICS/GOVERNMENT PREHISTORIC ART ENGINEERING BUILDER/ARCHITECT ARCHITECTURE EDUCATION THEATER SIGNIFICANCE TRANSPORTATION MILITARY _COMMUNICATIONS SCULPTURE INDUSTRY Wyandot Indians and the mission closed.The church and burial ground was -EXPLORATION/SETTLEMENT successful and continuing Methodist mission among the Indians in the United A farm adjoining the Wyandot reservation was purchased for Stewart and his placed under the trusteeship of the Methodist church. X.RELIGION _SCIENCE The Wyandot Mission Church was built as a result of the first really the church was erected with government funds due the Indians ($1333.30).
LITERATURE -CONSERVATION the General Conference of the Methodist Church appropriated $2,ooo for the and the establishment of the first permanent mission in 1819. -1600-1699 -ECONOMICS -1900- LAW _COMMUNITY PLANNING received a license to preach from the Methodist Church. In August, 1819, as The signing of the Wyandot Peace Treaty in 1842 forced the relocation of the The grounds and buildings were well-kept for a time, but were soon allowed to "restoration" of the mission. The work was completed in 1889 and the church has Statesand INVENTION ARCHEOLOGY-PREHISTORIC Indians was established.Rev.James Finley was appointed to assist Stewart.
been cared for ever since.Services are conducted in the church during the fall into disuse.The roof rotted and the walls began to crumble.In 1888 1816,in Upper Sandusky.John Stewart's work resulted in a large following 9
Quoted from the National Register nomination
for reference 76001552, 13 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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