Zachariah Price Dewitt Cabin

Zachariah Price Dewitt Cabin
Front of the cabin
Nearest city Oxford, Ohio
Coordinates 39°30′38″N 84°43′7″W / 39.51056°N 84.71861°WCoordinates: 39°30′38″N 84°43′7″W / 39.51056°N 84.71861°W
Architectural style Other[1]
Governing body Local[1]
NRHP Reference # 73001392[1]
Added to NRHP 1973-04-13[1]

Zachariah Price Dewitt Cabin is a registered historic building near Oxford, Ohio, listed in the National Register on 1973-04-13.

This log cabin was built in 1805 by Zachariah Price Dewitt and Elizabeth Dewitt and is the oldest extant structure in the Oxford Township of Butler County, Ohio. It is the only remaining home of the several built by pioneers along the Four-Mile Creek, just east of what is now the Miami University campus. The cabin and surrounding land is now owned by Miami University and is maintained by the Oxford Museum Association as a historic house museum. The cabin is on the north side of Ohio State Route 73 where it crosses Four-Mile Creek. Park on the east side of Four-Mile Creek and follow the lane across Harker's Run (Ohio) going about 1/4 mile north from the parking lot.

Zachariah DeWitt was born on April 24, 1768, in New Jersey, and by the 1780s, he had resettled in Kentucky along with two brothers. He married Elizabeth Teets (b. 1774) on March 11, 1790. When Ohio became a state in 1803, residents of Kentucky were drawn to its cheap and newly available land. By 1805 Zachariah and Elizabeth DeWitt had resettled near Four Mile Creek where he built his cabin and opened a sawmill. The cabin is on the east bank of the creek just north of Route 73. Both Zacariah and Elizabeth Dewittt are buried in the Darrtown, Ohio Pioneer Cemetery.[2]

The cabin is located on property belonging to Miami University, and the structure has been leased to the Oxford Museum Association. The association undertook the restoration of the house in 1973. Work included exposing and fixing the original adz-marked timber walls, rebuilding the limestone chimney, and replacing floors. The smokehouse was restored in 1999-2000. The association finished its work in 2003. Later work included interior work. The site was dedicated in May 2003.[2]

References

Smith, Ophia D. Old Oxford Houses and the People Who Lived In Them, Bicentennial Edition, 1976.

Notes

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. 2007-06-30.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 "DeWitt Log Homestead". Oxford Museum Association. Retrieved December 10, 2014.

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