Isham, John, Farmstead

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.