About Us:

This stately Greek revival structure was built a century and a half ago by Deacon Chester Hammond move west from Smyrna County, New York in 1836. The house was originally part of a two hundred acre tract which Hammond platted in 1837, in anticipation of a proposed extension of the Ernie Canal. Hammond's influence on the Union City's early development is formidable. Before his death in 1849, he was Union City's first town clerk and an original stock holder in the Union City Iron Co. In 1986, the Society for Historic Preservation acquired Hammond House to serve as a focal center for the preservation of local artifacts and written history of Union City.