Judge William Shaw Anderson House is a building in Austintown, Ohio, listed in the National Register of Historic Places on 1976-03-17. It is also known as the "Strock Stone House."
History of the house
The Judge William Shaw Anderson house, also known as the Strock Stone House, was built in 1831 of huge blocks of sandstone, some weighing as much as 750 pounds, quarried from Stony Ridge on South Turner Road in Austintown. The 1907 publication, History of Youngstown and the Mahoning Valley, says the house was built by William McClure, but the first residents were William Strock and his family. In 1830, Strock bought 87 acres (350,000 m) of land in Great Lot 8, Township 2, Range 3 of the Western Reserve from John Jordan. William Strock, who was born June 12, 1801 to Joseph Strock and Betsy Bensinger Strock in Tyrone Township, Pennsylvania., migrated to Austintown in 1813 or 1815 with his parents, his nine siblings, and 11 nieces and nephews. They settled in the southern part of Austintown township near the Smiths Corner area. William became a carpenter, married Lydia Crum, and moved into the stone house. John and Lydia had three children, two who died as infants. Their only surviving
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