Troy in Miami County, Ohio — The American Midwest (Great Lakes)
1804 Iddings Log House
Photographed by William Fischer, Jr., December 27, 2008
1. 1804 Iddings Log House Marker
Erected 2007 by Miami County Milestones Committee, Miami County Foundation, Troy Foundation, and The Ohio Historical Society. (Marker Number 22-55.)
Topics and series. This historical marker is listed in this topic list: Settlements & Settlers. In addition, it is included in the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP), and the Ohio Historical Society / The Ohio History Connection series lists. A significant historical year for this entry is 1804.
Location. 40° 0.925′ N, 84° 19.104′ W. Marker is in Troy, Ohio, in Miami County. It can be reached from Horseshoe Bend Road. Marker and log house are on the grounds of the Brukner
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Regionally, this marker is in Ohio’s Dayton Metro, in the Miami Valley, and in the Till Plains. It is also in the American Midwest and in the Corn Belt. Globally, it is in North America, the Western Hemisphere, the Western World, and the Anglosphere. Historically, it finds itself in what was once the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) Confederacy, the territory of the Mississippian Culture, and the Northwest Territory.
Other nearby markers. At least 8 other markers are within 6 miles of this marker, measured as the crow flies: Newton Township Civil War Memorial (approx. 2.9 miles away); West Milton Korean War Memorial (approx. 3.4 miles away); Charles Furnas 1880- 1941 (approx. 3.4 miles away); The Underground Railroad in West Milton (approx. 3.6 miles away); West Milton Friends Meeting (approx. 3.7 miles away); Hanktown (approx. 3.9 miles away); Milton-Union Memorial Stadium Pavilion (approx. 3.9 miles away); 1804 Quaker Meeting House
Photographed by William Fischer, Jr., December 27, 2008
2. 1804 Iddings Log House and Marker
Regarding 1804 Iddings Log House. National Register Nomination Form Statement of Significance:
Quaker meeting records indicate that Benjamin Iddings, a Scotch-Irish Bedford County, Pennsylvanian, migrated with his family to South Carolina, Tennessee, Warren County, Ohio, and then, C.1797, to the banks of the Stillwater Riber. He appears to have squatted on the land for several years. He selected the site for this log house by a clear spring that is still active on the bluffs above the river. The exact date of construction cannot be certainly ascertained, it may have been as early as 1797. However, reasonable deduction from old histories would give us his patent date of 1804. He had unwittingly encroached on the northeast quarter of section 33. His neighbor, Benjamin Pearson, a fellow Quaker who settled in 1805 and patented his land in the fall of 1806, granted Iddings the lot on which the cabin sits. We are quite certain that Iddings's grandson was born there in 1809. Local history credits Benjamin Iddings with being a "prominent citizen." This is very possibly the oldest structure in Miami County.
Also see . . .
1. Brukner Nature Center website.
Photographed by William Fischer, Jr., December 27, 2008
3. Brukner Nature Center and 1804 Iddings Log House Marker
2. Iddings Log House National Register Nomination Form. (Submitted on June 24, 2025, by William Fischer, Jr. of Reynoldsburg, Ohio.)
Photographed by Craig Doda, June 14, 2025
4. 1804 Iddings Log House Marker
Photographed by Craig Doda, June 14, 2025
5. 1804 Iddings Log House Marker
Photographed by Craig Doda, June 14, 2025
6. 1804 Iddings Log House Marker
Credits. This page was last revised on June 24, 2025. It was originally submitted on April 29, 2009, by William Fischer, Jr. of Reynoldsburg, Ohio. This page has been viewed 3,287 times since then and 96 times this year. Photos: 1, 2, 3. submitted on April 29, 2009, by William Fischer, Jr. of Reynoldsburg, Ohio. 4, 5, 6. submitted on June 17, 2025, by Craig Doda of Napoleon, Ohio. • Christopher Busta-Peck was the editor who published this page.
