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Buckner - Weldon Home
210/212 E. Riverside Drive

This house was constructed around 1800 by William Buckner, son of Philip Buckner, who founded Augusta in 1786. Philip was a captain in the Revolutionary War and purchased the land from William Taylor of Louisville, who had rights to the land under the Warrant-Patent system. He brought 40 families with him to settle the town and named it after his home in Augusta County, Virginia.

Vachel Weldon, Jr., a town trustee, purchased the home and multiple generations of his family occupied the property. In 1845, Weldon refused to go along with a movement by pro-slavery members of the Methodist Episcopal Church to break away and form a Southern branch. Weldon and his fellow Augusta delegates voted against recognizing the Southern branch at a convention in Louisville. The house was untouched during the Battle of Augusta. Vachel Weldon and his wife are buried in the garden of the house at 308 S. Main Street.