The Old Pike: A History of the National Road, with Incidents, Accidents, and Anecdotes ThereonSearight, Thomas B. (Thomas Brownfield)
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The Old Pike: A History of the National Road, with Incidents, Accidents, and Anecdotes Thereon
Searight, Thomas B. (Thomas Brownfield)
Cumberland Road; Pennsylvania -- Biography
Next after leaving the Little Crossings on the westward march, comes
Grantsville, a romantic little mountain village in Garrett, formerly
Alleghany, county, Maryland, named long before the hero of Appomattox
was known to fame, and therefore not in his honor. In 1833 Samuel Gillis
kept a tavern in the east end of Grantsville, on the south side of the
road, the same house that in later years was kept by John Slicer. It was
a wagon stand in the time of Gillis, and Slicer did not take charge of
it until business had ceased on the road. John Lehman kept a tavern in
Grantsville in 1836. He was a son-in-law, as was Peter Yeast, of the
good old widow Wooding, before mentioned.
The Lehman House was subsequently kept by Henry Fuller, and after him by
George Smouse. It was a frame building near the center of the village,
on the south side of the street and road. In 1843 Henry Fuller
demolished this old house, and erected a new one in its place. Adam
Shultz kept a tavern at the east end of Grantsville back in the forties,
and dying in charge, was succeeded by his son Perry, who continued it
down to the year 1852, when the ancient glories of the old pike began to
weaken and wane. The Shultz House was an imposing brick structure, on
the south side of the road, and was kept for a while by the veteran
David Mahaney, and at one time by Jesse King. Perry Shultz was
subsequently elected sheriff of Alleghany county, Maryland. Solomon
Steiner also kept a tavern in Grantsville during a portion of the
prosperous era of the road. Grantsville seems to have been a favorite
locality for tavern keepers of German names and antecedents. Steiner's
tavern was a brick building, and stood on the opposite side of the road
from the old Shultz House. Steiner built it, owned it, and died in it,
and his son, Archibald, conducted it for a number of years after his
father's death. It was a wagon stand. The Fuller House was kept at
different times by John D. Wrench, Bazil Garletts, Barney Brown, John
Slicer, William Slicer, William Beffler, John Millinger, and Nathaniel
Slicer. Christian M. Livengood is the present proprietor. Archibald
Steiner was succeeded in his father's old house, first, by William Shaw,
and thereafter in turn by John Millinger and Jonas E. Canagy, the
present proprietor, and it is now called the Farmer's House.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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