National Register of Historic Places listings in Wheeler County, Oregon

This is a list of properties and districts in Wheeler County, Oregon that are listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

Current listings

[1] Landmark name Image Date listed Location City or town Summary
1 Thomas Benton Hoover House 01978-04-14April 14, 1978 1st St. between Adams and Washington Sts.
 Fossil Thomas Benton Hoover, an early Euro-American settler and prominent Fossil citizen, built this two-story, clapboard house in 1882. Hoover was Fossil's first merchant (along with a partner), mayor, justice of the peace, and postmaster, as well as an early county commissioner and director of schools. He named Fossil for a paleontological find on his property in 1876.[2]

References

  1. ^ Numbers represent an ordering by significant words. Various colorings, defined here, differentiate National Historic Landmark sites and National Register of Historic Places Districts from other NRHP buildings, structures, sites or objects.
  2. ^ Conner, Mrs. Robert E. (October 1977). National Register of Historic Places Inventory — Nomination Form: Hoover (Thomas Benton) House. Washington: National Park Service 
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