Sold - c.1858 Fixer Upper One-Room Schoolhouse For Sale on 1 Acre in Urbana, OH Under $50K

5256 State Route 54, Urbana, OH 43078 $49,900 Sold

c.1858 Fixer Upper For Sale in Urbana, OH Under $50K

Farm land featured at 5256 State Route 54, Urbana, OH 43078

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History

In the 1800’s it served as the Buck Creek School House. Most of the old schools built in the late 1870s and early 1880s in Champaign County, Ohio, looked exactly like this one, and many have been converted into homes. You can see a few of them here. Surrounded by trees and beautiful farmland on its own acre, this ”blank canvas’ has been cleaned inside, has replacement windows, and a newer roof. The current owner has used it as a seasonal artist studio.

20 October 1921 blurb in the Union County Journal (Marysville, OH)

Historical Marker

Across the road is a historical marker. Per champaigncountyhistorical museum.org:

This “was the site of the 1950 National and Ohio Plowing Matches and the National Association of Soil Conservation Districts Field Days. The three-day event drew a crowd of nearly 75,000 and was headquartered in the woods of the Edwin (Ned) Kirby farm located a quarter mile north on Benson Road. The first national matches were held in Mitchellville, Iowa, in 1939 and continued until halted by the start of World War II. They resumed in 1945. Ohio’s 1950 Champaign County-Union Township National Plowing Matches was the first “National” to be held outside Iowa. The 1950 National and Ohio Plowing Matches featured a group of fourteen-Buck Creek Valley farmers who acted as hosts for the plowing matches where Urbana’s two-time world champion Dean Wilson completed for a third title. It also featured a new activity known as “Wagon Trains,” which involved Union Township host farmers who used 125 wagons and tractors to haul the crowds of people and farmers to view the plowing matches, demonstrations, and many conservation projects that covered 2,200 surrounding acres spread over 10 farms. The event also featured five parking fields covering 200 acres and an airfield on the south side and parallel to SR 54, adjacent to Benson Road, for the “flying farmers” who demonstrated seeding, fertilizing, and corn borer control.”

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Year Built 1858
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Contact Realtor: E Lee Henderson with Henderson Land Investment Company

Property featured at 5256 State Route 54, Urbana, OH 43078

REALTOR COMMENTS

This 24′ x 34′ historic brick Fixer Upper For Sale will get your creative juices flowing. The rain barrel will stay. This property does not have a useable well, septic HVAC or electrical system. Off the road parking just after house number sign on the grass.