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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