{"nrhp_refnum":"92001159","name":"Isham, John, Farmstead","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"8460 S. River Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Waterville","county":"Lucas County","state":"OH","lat":41.48808111300005,"lon":-83.74510796806997,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1992-09-16","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Exploration/Settlement","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A 109-acre farmstead district at 8460 S. River Road in Waterville, Lucas County, Ohio, including a Greek Revival house built in 1853, a 1908 raised three-bay basement barn, farmland and a wood lot.","why_significant":"The farmstead is significant under Criterion A as evidence of the early nineteenth-century settlement pattern of the Maumee Valley, and the evaluation sheet also cites Criterion C. It has had more than 150 years of single-family ownership and continuous cultivation. The 1908 barn reflects building traditions of New England settlers.","narrative":"This 109-acre farmstead on the north side of the Maumee valley in Waterville, Ohio, centers on an upright-and-wing Greek Revival house built in 1853 by John Isham and a gable-roof basement barn built in 1908 to replace an earlier English barn. The property also includes farmland, a wood lot and several recent noncontributing buildings. Isham was a Miami and Erie Canal foreman and later Superintendent of Canal Repairs, and the canal crossed his land. The land came from a 1833 patent to his father-in-law, Smith Daggett. The farm is significant as an example of the settlement pattern of the first permanent occupants of the Maumee Valley, who chose high ground above the flood plain. Descendants of the Daggett and Isham families have owned it for more than 150 years, and the land has been continuously cultivated. The house was listed separately in 1982 for its architecture, and this district listing adds the barn and fields.","period_of_significance":"1853-1942","architect_builder":"Unknown","architectural_style":"Greek Revival; Other: Raised Three-Bay or Basement Barn","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Still a working farm with about 60 acres in agriculture and a 38.5-acre wood lot; the barn is described as somewhat deteriorated; the house has been occupied by descendants except 1921-1950, when it was rented to tenant farmers.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:53:14.210178-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_OH/92001159.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71990047","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":null},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/ohio/lucas-county/isham-john-farmstead-92001159/"}