Buckeye Station’s Double Stone Chimney, Adams County, Ohio Buckeye Station, the one-time home of Nathaniel Massie and his brother-in-law, Charles Willing Byrd, lays in ruins, marked now by a cell phone tower on what was once known as Hurricane Hill. An inescapable reference to what local historian Stephen Kelley once described as “the nearly constant wind coming out of the Ohio Valley that buffets the ridges on each side of the river,” Hurricane Hill offers a commanding and dramatic view of the Ohio and Kentucky hills to the south. Buckeye Station, the original residence, took its name from the timber used in its construction, which was cut from a grove of Aesculus glabra, the Ohio Buckeye, which still grows in abundance on the grounds of this historic overlook. The early American inhabitants of the region adopted the buckeye for their state’s nickname. Easy to split, the buckeye was commonly used…
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