Buckeye Station, house in Monroe Township, United States of America
Buckeye Station is a house in Monroe Township listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The building has a simple wooden structure with a sloped roof and small windows, featuring the modest design typical of rural homes from that era.
Nathaniel Massie, a surveyor and early Ohio settler, built the present one-and-a-half-story L-shaped house in 1797, replacing a c. 1791 log cabin of buckeye timber. Massie leased the property to John Moore before selling it to his brother-in-law Charles Willing Byrd. Massie also founded Manchester and Chillicothe, Ohio's first capital.
The name Buckeye Station comes from the buckeye timber of the c. 1791 log cabin that first stood here. Nathaniel Massie built that cabin beside Massie Station, the stockaded village he founded that later grew into Manchester. The present house replaced the cabin in 1797.
Buckeye Station is a ruin in a patch of woods near a large agricultural field, not a maintained site, so exploring the remains carries risk. A historical marker stands to the south on Highway 52, east of Manchester, and the site lies in the uplands above the Ohio River. Expect uneven ground and summer insects.
The name comes from the buckeye timber used in the c. 1791 log cabin that first stood here, before Nathaniel Massie replaced it with the present L-shaped house in 1797. Massie later sold the property to his brother-in-law Charles Willing Byrd.
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