{"nrhp_refnum":"77001069","name":"Miner's Supply Store","other_names":["Wood,Enoch,and Sons,Hardware Store"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"Main and 2nd Sts.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Coalton","county":"Jackson County","state":"OH","lat":39.113495596000064,"lon":-82.61038042599995,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1977-11-01","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Industry","Commerce","Architecture","Invention"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A one-and-one-half-story frame commercial building at the southwest corner of Main and Second Streets in Coalton, Jackson County, Ohio, probably built around 1880 as a general store and later known as the Wood Hardware Store.","why_significant":"The building housed the Miners' Supply Company, run by John H. Patterson, a coal merchant and mine owner. Patterson's use of early cash registers here turned the store's losses into profit and led him to buy the National Manufacturing Company and found a career as head of the National Cash Register Company. The building is presented as a tangible reminder of that Coalton experience.","narrative":"Standing at the corner of Main and Second Streets in Coalton, Ohio, this small frame store was probably built around 1880, soon after the Patterson family acquired the lot. Coalton was platted in 1877 as Eurekaville along the Ohio Southern Railroad to serve nearby coal mines. John H. Patterson, a local coal merchant and mine owner, ran the Miner's Supply Company here as a general store selling goods to miners. After about three years the store had lost money despite large sales. Patterson bought two early wooden cash registers from Dayton, and the business began to turn a profit. In 1884 he bought the failing National Manufacturing Company, moved to Dayton, and led the National Cash Register Company. The building is a one-and-one-half-story gabled structure with beveled siding, a c. 1920 porch and a rear addition. It is now vacant, but its interior still has bracketed shelving and arched bins.","period_of_significance":"c. 1880","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":null,"criteria":[],"status_note":"Described as now vacant; the interior retains 19th-century shelving and bins, with a c. 1920 porch and a rear addition probably from shortly after 1895.","vacant_flag":true,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:53:09.100569-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_OH/77001069.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/77001069/a2567cdf01-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/77001069/a2567cdf01-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY 2.0","author":"Don O'Brien","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Historic_Structure_in_Coalton,_Ohio.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Don O'Brien</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY 2.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Historic_Structure_in_Coalton,_Ohio.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71989442","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q138376615"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/ohio/jackson-county/miners-supply-store-77001069/"}