Photograph of Huddleston Farmhouse — Photograph by William Eccles, Public domain. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Huddleston House Tavern, The

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.

From the record

“The Huddleston Farmhouse Inn in Cambridge City, Indiana, is a historic inn that once served travelers along the National Road. It was owned by former-Quaker John Huddleston who, with his wife Susannah, and 11 children, offered lodging, cooking materials, and a place for their horses to rest for the night.”
Wikipedia article Huddleston Farmhouse, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 40 National Register listings published here for Wayne County · listed in 1975 · category: Building.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 6 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
Address. U.S. Hwy. 40 East, Mount Auburn, 47327
When was it listed? June 1975
Category. building
Township. Jackson township
Architectural style. Federal architecture
National Register reference number. 75000037 - the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.

The ground it stands on

10,460 words

This property stands in Jackson Township. History of Wayne County, Indiana, from Its First Settlement to the Present Time : with Numerous Biographical and Family Sketches, published 1872; Memoirs of Wayne County and the City of Richmond Indiana, published 1912 gives that township a chapter of its own.

The chapter covers the township.

Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.

Read the whole chapter on Jackson Township - 10,460 words on its settlement, mills, schools and churches.

Mines and quarries near this property

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Huddleston House Tavern, The: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Cambridge City Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Wayne County

Map coverage status

No historic map-sheet match is published for this property yet. That does not mean no map exists. This record needs a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary. Browse the county's mapped places while that work is pending.

Listed places nearby

6 within 8 miles

Other National Register properties close enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties to their map sheets.

Property	Distance	Listed
Cambridge City Historic District	0.7 miles	1991
Witt-Champe-Myers House	0.9 miles	1995
Conklin-Montgomery House	1.1 miles	1975
Lackey-Overbeck House	1.2 miles	1976
Dublin Friends Meeting House	1.4 miles	2018
Beechwood (Isaac Kinsey House)	4.3 miles	1975

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 75000037 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Wayne County	All 40 listed properties in this county.

Provenance

Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.