What the current research says
BCHS research summarized for this project dates the cabin to about 1817 and associates its construction with John McKeen, a Pennsylvania-born cooper who came to Ohio in 1805 and to Hamilton in 1817. The cabin originally stood at 209 Park Avenue, then Boudinot Street, in Rossville.
Its later owner R. B. “Penny” Hershner helped preserve the structure. In 1964 the cabin was rescued, moved from its Rossville location, and dedicated at Monument Park.
Why it is relevant to this project
McKeen served as a ruling elder in Hamilton's Presbyterian congregation and belongs to the same early religious and civic world in which David McDill, John Woods, and other later network figures operated. The cabin provides rare surviving physical context for that early community.
Evidence boundary: No current evidence proves that the cabin itself was an Underground Railroad station or hiding place. Its value here is Presbyterian, Rossville, settlement, and surviving-site context.