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This inn was built c. 1822 for stagecoach
travelers between Elmira, New York and
Williamsport, Pennsylvania (north and
south); and Athens,
Pennsylvania to Wellsboro,
Pennsylvania
(east and west). In
1854 the New YorkCentral Railroad was built and its passengers
used the inn as well.
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The outside of the inn is done in Greek Revival
Architecture style. The Inn has original
woodwork, iron door latches, and glass windows.
Upstairs there is a ballroom which
doubled as a men’s dorm, innkeepers room,
rooms for traveling women and children,
which now house displays of sewing machines,
styles of 1850s clothes and pictures,
also quilts made in this area, a rope bed and
other period furniture. Downstairs is the dining
room with unique history and a parlor
with local items of the early 1800s period.
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The Inn was an Underground Railroad Connection
in the 1840s and 1850s. It is surrounded
by period shrubs and flowers, has an
herb garden near the kitchen door (heritage
garden with vegetables and flax) and also a
dye garden for dying flax or wool that would
have been used during that period.
The Inn is open by appointment and/or at special
events.
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