National Register Listing

Buckeye Station

E of Manchester off U.S. 52, Manchester, OH

Buckeye Station was built by General Nathaniel Massie, a prominent surveyor and early Ohio settler. Massie moved from Virginia to Kentucky in 1783, learned surveying in Louisville, then, in 1790, began locating land warrants in the Virginia military lands in Ohio. By the spring of 1791 he had established a stockaded village known as "Massie's Station, " the present town of Manchester, Adams Co. On a high plateau about four miles east of the settlement Massie built a log house which he called "Buckeye Station" (because it was
constructed of buckeye timber). Six; years later, in 1797, he removed this structure and, on the same site, built the house with which this aprjlication is concerned. The name simply transferred from the older house to the new. Massie had laid out the town of Chillicothe, Ross Co., in 1796, and had established a permanent residency in the county. As a consequence, between 1797 and 1802, when he sold the property, Massie only infrequently resided at Buckeye Station. (Two dates are given for the sale of the property, 1802 and 1807;
he may not have sold the property in 1802 but rented it to Judge Byrd or another party.) By 1807 Judge Charles W. Byrd, of the US District for Ohio, was in residence at Buckeye Station. In I818 a family by name of Ellison acquired the property.

Buckeye Station has architectural significance in the fact that it is the oldest documented braced frame building remaining in Ohio. It has historical significance because it was constructed by a prominent early immigrant to the Ohio Country,

Local significance of the building:
Listed in National Register of Historic Places in 1974.