{"nrhp_refnum":"82001488","name":"Canal Fulton Historic District","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Ohio-Erie Canal, Market, Canal, Cherry and High Sts.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Canal Fulton","county":"Stark County","state":"OH","lat":40.88228052450006,"lon":-81.59049600375843,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1982-12-02","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Industry","Commerce","Conservation","Transportation","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A historic district of about 90 sites and structures in Canal Fulton, Stark County, Ohio, centered on Canal, Market, Cherry and High Streets and a section of the Ohio-Erie Canal. It contains homes, businesses, churches, bridges and a park built from the 1840s to about 1920.","why_significant":"The district's architecture reflects two economic periods in Stark County, a wheat-export era and a later coal-mining era, both tied to the Ohio-Erie Canal. Its buildings show how the town, transportation and trade interacted. It also keeps a canal section with Lock IV ruins and a reconstructed dry dock.","narrative":"Canal Fulton's historic district covers roughly 71 acres on the east side of the Tuscarawas River and the old Ohio-Erie Canal bed. It holds about 90 buildings, structures and sites, including wood-frame dwellings, brick commercial blocks, three churches, three bridges, a municipal park and a one-and-one-half-mile stretch of canal that is still water-filled. Buildings date from the 1840s to the early 1900s and fall into two groups. Wheat-era houses and shops, many modest vernacular frame or log buildings, cluster along early routes such as Canal and Cherry Streets. After coal mining took hold in the 1870s, Italianate commercial blocks, industrial buildings such as the Fulton Drop Forge, and Queen Anne, Gothic Revival and Colonial Revival homes along High Street were added. The district was listed because this mix of buildings shows how the canal, farm trade and mining shaped a small Ohio town. A local ordinance and review commission help protect the area.","period_of_significance":"1840-1920","architect_builder":"Various","architectural_style":"Vernacular 19th century village architecture, including Greek Revival, Federal, Italianate, Carpenter and Victorian Gothic, Queen Anne, Colonial Revival and Bungalow","criteria":[],"status_note":"Condition is marked excellent, good and fair, with a mix of altered and unaltered buildings. Much of the district is protected by a local historic district ordinance. Intrusions are scattered, but the main residential and commercial areas are relatively free of them.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:53:14.572737-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_OH/82001488.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71991400","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":null},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/ohio/stark-county/canal-fulton-historic-district-82001488/"}