Buckeye Station

One half mile north of this monument the home of Gen. Nathaniel Massie, founder of Manchester in 1791, first settlement in the Virginia Military District.

Residence of Charles Willing Byrd, Secretary and Acting Governor, Northwest Territory and first United States District Judge for Ohio.

Israel Donalson, delegate from Adams County to, and last survivor of, the first Constitutional Convention of Ohio, was captured nearby by Indians in 1791.

Marker is on Ohio River Scenic Byway (U.S. 52) 1.5 miles west of State Highway 247, on the right when traveling west.

Courtesy hmdb.org

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