Judge William Shaw Anderson House

Judge William Shaw Anderson House is a building in Austintown, Ohio, United States, listed in the National Register of Historic Places on 1976-03-17.

The 1921 publication, History of Youngstown and the Mahoning Valley, says the Strock Stone house was built in 1830 by William McClure.

In 1830, Strock bought 87 acres (350,000 m2) of land in Great Lot 8, Township 2, Range 3 of the Western Reserve from John Jordan and had McClure build the house there.

The Strock Stone house was reputedly a stop on the Underground Railroad that smuggled fugitive slaves to safety in Canada.

Additionally, Francis Henry appears on William Seibert's 1898 list of known underground railroad operators in Mahoning County.

Finally, Heffelfinger's unpublished History of Meander says that slaves were hidden in a tunnel that connected the house basement with the barn.

According to the History of Youngstown and the Mahoning Valley, Anderson worked setting curbstones for five years in Philadelphia.

Donald Heffelfinger's unpublished History of the Meander says that Anderson moved to a nearby frame house that was built during the American Civil War.

Anderson, who lived in the house from 1890 to 1925, was a prominent lawyer and judge in the Youngstown Court of Common Pleas.

The Austintown Historical Society maintains the Strock Stone House with help from the Mahoning Valley Sanitary District.

The Society maintains and furnishes the interior using period rugs and furniture donated by residents of Austintown including a slave quilt from South Carolina.

Another room is set up as a lady's bedroom with antique clothes including a wedding dress, coats, bloomers, purses, woolen swimsuits, and a Depression sheet made from sugar sacks.

The house is open for free guided tours the first Sunday of every month from March-December from 1-3 and by appointment for other times.

A Twentieth Century History of Trumbull County, Ohio: A Narrative Account of its Historical Progress, its People and its Principal Interests