Description: This photograph shows the famous doorway of Penn Tavern (note the sign on the door reading "C.V. Penn") in Middlebourne, Ohio, along the National Road. The National Road was the United State's first federally-funded interstate, built between 1811-1834. It connected the eastern states to the west and ran through central Ohio. Many inns and taverns were built to accommodate the travelers along the route. The Penn Tavern was demolished prior to November 8, 1996, having stood on the same site since 1842. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B01F07_003
Subjects: Architecture--Ohio--Pictorial works.; Architecture, Domestic--Ohio--Pictorial works.; Inns; Taverns
Places: Middlebourne (Ohio); Guernsey County (Ohio)
 

Description: Caption reads "Tiffin-Wayne Tavern, Chillicothe." The Wayne Tavern in Chillicothe was owned by Joseph Tiffin until 1803 when he gave it up to become the landlord of a new tavern located on Water Street called the Seventeen Stars. The photograph also appears to show the Clinton House Pharmacy. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B02F10_009_1
Subjects: Chillicothe (Ross County, Ohio); Taverns (Inns)--Ohio; Chillicothe (Ross County, Ohio)--Social life and customs--19th century.
Places: Chillicothe (Ohio); Ross County (Ohio)
 

Description: This photograph shows the Inn in Mariemont, Ohio, which was erected in 1925. Mariemont is a planned community east of downtown Cincinnati, Ohio. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL06205
Subjects: Architecture--Ohio; Taverns (Inns); Cincinnati (Ohio); Works Progress Administration;
Places: Mariemont (Ohio)
 

Description: Our House--a 3-story brick tavern in the Federal style--was built in Gallipolis by Henry Cushing in 1819. The tavern boasted (in addition to its taproom, dining room, and other usual facilities), a large ballroom for social functions. On 22 May 1825, General Lafayette visited Gallipolis and was entertained at Our House Tavern. Gallipolis still celebrates Lafayette's visit with a ceremony each spring. The Cushing family owned and operated Our House until 1865. It was purchased in 1933 by Dr. and Mrs. Charles E. Holzer. They donated it to the state in 1944 as a memorial to the French families who founded Gallipolis. It is located at 432 1st Avenue in Gallipolis. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B01F10_002_001
Subjects: Taverns (Inns)--Ohio; Ohio Historical Society
Places: Gallipolis (Ohio); Gallia County (Ohio)
 

Description: This tavern on East Avenue in Brighton, New York, was kept by William C. Bloss. From 1830 to 1860 he hid fugitive slaves there. The image was collected by Ohio State University professor Wilbur H. Siebert (1866-1961). Siebert began researching the Underground Railroad in the 1890s as a way to interest his students in history. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL03094
Subjects: Underground Railroad--New York; Ohio History--Slavery, Anti-Slavery and Civil Rights; Taverns (Inns)
Places: Brighton (New York); Monroe County (New York)
 

Description: View of the front of the Headley Inn, located along U.S. Route 40 (the old National Road) about 5 miles west of Zanesville in southwestern Falls Township, Muskingum County, Ohio, United States. The Headley Inn began as a stagecoach inn in 1802. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B02F02_011_1
Subjects: Taverns (Inns)--Ohio--Zanesville
Places: Zanesville (Ohio); Muskingum County (Ohio)
 

Description: Caption reads: "The Old Log Cabin, or Newcom's Tavern, Van Cleve Park, Dayton. The O. R. M. C. MARKER read, Newcom Tavern. Dayton's first Tavern and courthouse. In the War of 1812, was quartermaster's headquarters, Col. Robert Patterson commanding. Restored by the D. A. R. for Historical Society Museum." "Colonel George Newcom, one of Dayton's first settlers, constructed this two-story log house in 1796. Newcom engaged Robert Edgar, a millwright, to build "the best house in Dayton." The original house consisted of one room upstairs and one room on the ground floor, with a door facing the river. In 1798, a two-story addition was added south of the original structure, with a new door facing Main Street. Since the tavern was a large two-story building, it soon became the center of village activity, as well as overnight lodging for travelers. The first court sessions were held in the tavern, and it served as a place for school and church services. The Newcoms sold the tavern in 1815, and ownership changed several times during the next twenty years. In 1838, Joseph Shaffer purchased the structure at a Sheriff's auction and converted it into a general store. The building remained "Shaffer's Store" for the next 56 years. In 1894, architect Charles Insco Williams started to raze it to make way for an apartment building when removal of the clapboards revealed the original logs. John Cotterill owned the building and offered to donate it to the city, provided it was moved off the property. Acting on the recommendations of the "Log Cabin Committee, " the city approved moving the tavern to Van Cleve Park. John H. Patterson, founder of The National Cash Register Company, paid for the move. The Daughters of the American Revolution raised money by public subscription to have it restored, and the Dayton Historical Society was organized to operate it as a museum. In the 1960s, the Montgomery Historical Society donated the tavern and related collections to Carillon Historical Park. Newcom Tavern made its final move in the fall of 1964. Today, now Dayton's oldest standing building, Newcom Tavern stands in Carillon Historical Park, approximately two miles south of its original site. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B02F02_008_1
Subjects: Taverns (Inns)--Ohio; Log-end Architecture, Domestic--Ohio--Pictorial works.; Architecture, Domestic--Ohio--Pictorial works.; Architecture--Ohio; Dayton (Ohio)--Buildings, structures, etc.--Pictorial works; Patterson, Robert, 1753-1827; Ohio--History--Pictorial works; Federal Writers' Project
Places: Dayton (Ohio); Montgomery County (Ohio)
 

Description: Photo of Headly Inn located on 5255 West Pike (US-40), Zanesville, Ohio. The Headley Inn began as a stagecoach inn in 1802. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B15F02_002_001
Subjects: Taverns (Inns)--Ohio--Zanesville
Places: Zanesville (Ohio); Muskingum County (Ohio)
 

Description: Photo of Headly Inn located on 5255 West Pike (US-40), Zanesville, Ohio. The Headley Inn began as a stagecoach inn in 1802. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B15F02_003_001
Subjects: Taverns (Inns)--Ohio--Zanesville
Places: Zanesville (Ohio); Muskingum County (Ohio)
 

Description: In 1804 Jonathan Fowler built this stone tavern, also known as Sparrow Tavern or Old Stone Tavern, in Poland, Ohio. Besides serving as a tavern, the building acted as a general store, hotel, and home to Jonathan Sparrow and his family. The building was a prominent stagecoach stop between Pittsburgh and Cleveland. In 1861 future U. S. president William McKinley enrolled in the Union Army on the front porch of this tavern. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B02F02_025_1
Subjects: Historic buildings--Ohio--Poland (Township)--Pictorial works; Poland (Ohio : Township)--Social life and customs--Pictorial works; Taverns (Inns)--Ohio.
Places: Poland (Ohio); Mahoning County (Ohio)
 

Description: Taken by photographer Louis Baus, this photographic reproduction shows the Zoar Tavern and miller's house located west of the Ohio and Erie Canal in Zoar, Ohio, 1890. Led by Joseph Bimeler (sometimes spelled Bäumeler) in 1817, a group of Lutheran separatists left the area of Germany known as Wurttemberg and eventually established the small community of Zoar in Tuscarawas County, Ohio. The community of Zoar was not originally organized as a commune, but its residents had a difficult time surviving in 1818 and early 1819. As a result, on April 19, 1819, the group formed the Society of Separatists of Zoar. Each person donated his or her property to the community as a whole, and in exchange for their work, the society would provide for them. Additional modifications to the society's organization were made in 1824 and a constitution established in 1833. In the decades following the establishment of the Zoar commune, the Separatists experienced economic prosperity. The community was almost entirely self-sufficient and sold any surpluses to the outside world. In addition to agriculture, Zoar residents also worked in a number of industries, including flour mills, textiles, a tin shop, copper, wagon maker, two iron foundries, and several stores. The society also made money by contracting to build a seven-mile stretch of the Ohio and Erie Canal. The canal crossed over Zoar's property, and the society owned several canal boats. The canal traffic also brought other people into the community, who bought Zoar residents' goods. By the second half of the nineteenth century, the community was quite prosperous. After Bimeler's death in 1853, the unity of the village declined, and by 1898 the Zoarites disbanded the society. The remaining residents divided the property, and the community continued to prosper in Zoar. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL00909
Subjects: Zoar (Tuscarawas County, Ohio); Society of Separatists of Zoar; Taverns (Inns); Small towns; Communal societies
Places: Zoar (Ohio); Tuscarawas County (Ohio)
 

Description: This photograph shows the old tavern in Tymochtee Township known as the "Gier House," and later as the "Long Tavern and Dance Hall." According to information accompanying the original, Henry P. Willoughby was born in the tavern on February 19, 1900. He lives today in Tiffin, Ohio. His mother's maiden name was Long. Photograph by Harry Evan Kinley (1882-1969), a native of nearby Upper Sandusky, Ohio. Kinley was active in local events and organizations, and spent his professional career as a clerk at his father's store, and later as a traveling salesman for the Marion Paper & Supply Company (1934-1962). Kinley was also an avid lifelong photographer, and the bulk of the Harry Kinley Collection is comprised of glass plate negatives documenting the Kinley family, the city of Upper Sandusky and Wyandot County and surrounding areas. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AV30_B04F05_04
Subjects: Taverns (Inns); Businesses; Bars (Drinking establishments)
Places: Tymochtee Township (Ohio); Wyandot County (Ohio);