OHIO
Archaeological and Historical
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BUCKEYE STATION
BUILT BY NATHANIEL MASSIE IN 1797
BY MORTEN CARLISLE
Shrouded in the mists of obscurity and
but little
known except to a few of the older
generation in and
about Manchester, Ohio, this old house,
built by the
famous surveyor, General Nathaniel
Massie, stands to-
day, mute evidence of the excellence of
his work and a
link between the throbbing life of the
present day and
those hardy pioneers, whose toil and
suffering made
possible the settling of the Northwest
Territory and the
making of our great State of Ohio.
This house, built in 1797, on the high
hill overlook-
ing the Ohio River, is possibly the
oldest existing dwell-
ing in Ohio, with the exception of one
or two houses in
Marietta. It was probably the first
attempt of Nathan-
iel Massie to make for himself a
permanent home, but
at that he had but little time to enjoy
such a home, for,
aside from being still unmarried, he
was an unusually
busy man, with many projects under way,
notably the