Vaugh-Stacy-Evans Farm Historic District

Three miles south of Lowell, Ohio, between State Route 60 and the Muskingum River, this farm preserves thirteen historic buildings on 26 acres, reduced from an original 85. The oldest is a single-pen log house from about 1800, the second residence on the farm. The main house, an "I" house with clapboard siding and six-over-six windows, dates from about 1861 and gained a rear kitchen addition and decorative front porch around 1900. Other buildings include a summer kitchen, smokehouse, privy, corn crib, granary, two hog houses, a chicken coop, a garage and a large hewn-log barn painted with a Mail Pouch Tobacco mural. A relocated cobbler shop came from Lowell after the 1913 flood. The farm was listed for its agricultural importance and its intact collection of farm buildings from 1800 to 1946. It remained mostly a subsistence farm, and in the 1950s it also grew tomatoes in unusually large quantity. The same family has held it since 1911.