The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1899-10-05

of the Tuscarora mountain, was
Beavers, a well known place.
John Mullan moved up to it not
long after the date just above Civ
en- and resided there quite a
number of years. There is a
house half mile or so above
Beavers which may havo been a
tavern at one time, but [ do not
remember il as such and believe
| never heard name in connec-
ton with it. A short distance
eastof the crest of the Cove noun
tain is a long stone house which
was kept as q tavern from an
early period down to a date which
| am unable TO fix. 1t has for
many year bcen in a delapidated
condition. At the western foot
of the Cove mountain, q mile out
of McConnellsburg, a tavern was
kept at an early day by a man
named Smith. Several years ago
| met an old lady, who was then
80 years of age, who said she was
married (and l think also born)
in that house, which her father
owned and kept tavern in.
There are five houses in Nc
Connellsburg which | have known
as taverns, but one of them was
torn down some years ago. The
most prominent was Lindsay's, a
stone house of good size, the prin-
cipal stage stand. After Lindsay
it was kept by Wendell, Mrs.
Cooper, Emanuel Brossius, Jacob
Trout and others. Cooks was a
well-known drove and wagon
stand. Another was kept at an
early day by Scott;for someyears,
perhaps before and after the year
1850, by Mark Dickson, and af-
terward by VIM. G. McNulty and
others. Near the west end of
town Il family named Merritt's
kept a tavern at which one of the
lines of stages stopped in 1915
and thereabOuts. After the Gre
alton of Fulton county and the
erection of q Court House in Nc
Connellsburg, q new brick tavern
was built near the Court House
and kept by Jacob Mcdonald,
who, about the year 1862, ex-
changed it for a property at Pat
terson's run, four miles farther
up the turnpike.
About a mile beyond McCon-
nellsburg, on the western slope
Of the first ridge, is a stone house
which [ understand was an old
time tavern, known as Fishers;
and perhaps three-fourths of Il
mile farther, on the eastern slope
Of the middle ridge, stood a small
frame or log weatherboarded
house, with running pump near
the door, which | remember as
an old tavern. If not kept by q
Shafer when | saw it several
times between the years S50and
1860, it subsequently became the
property of a man Of that name,
who built new og-framed house
on the other side of the road and
tore down the old building. At
the western foot of the middle
ridge was the Patterson's Run
tavern. The first person connect
ed with this property whom /
knewpersonallywas James Blair,
who exchanged it for Mcdonald IS
as above stated, Perched just
beyond the top of the third ridge,
hardly a mile beyond Patterson s
was the old Sipes tavern, an an
cient frame on log weatherboard-
ed house. | passed it first in
daylight in 1851, when | observed
the name of II. Gump ON the sign.
A mile on so farther we come to-
Licking Greek (Harrisonville, J
where | believe there were two
taverns, one q stone house and
the other q frame These, with
adjacent lands, were from an
early date the property Of u Mr.
Metzler, and when | became well
acquainted with them, his sons
Nicholas and John occupied them,
the latter in the frame, which
continued to be a tavern as long