Brown's Tavern

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000. 16 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1893.

From the record

“Brown's Tavern is a historic tavern and farm complex located at South Hartford in Washington County, New York. The property includes the 1802 Brown's Tavern, an 1878 horse barn, outhouse, corn crib, well and pump, and store and sheds foundations.”
Wikipedia article Brown's Tavern, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 52 National Register listings published here for Washington County · listed in 2000 · category: Building.

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

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 3 buildingss, 2 sitess, 2 structuress as contributing to the listing.
Address. 7755 NY 40, South Hartford, 12838
When was it listed? September 2000
Category. building
Town. Hartford town
Architectural style. Federal architecture
National Register reference number. 00001154 - 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.

Then and now

1893 to 1989

The ground this property stands on, surveyed 96 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet covering Brown's Tavern, surveyed 1989

Topographic sheet covering Brown's Tavern, surveyed 1893

Fires near this property

114 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 114 fires within 5 miles of Brown's Tavern between 1992 and 2020, burning about 102 acres in total. 20 started naturally. 14 were recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause	Fires
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	60
Natural	20
Arson/incendiarism	14
Debris and open burning	11
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Power generation/transmission/distribution	3
Smoking	2
Recreation and ceremony	1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
6 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
25 September 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
24 September 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.2 acres	Fire Department of New York	not named
22 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
19 September 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
19 September 2011	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
14 September 2002	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
7 August 2005	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Fire Department of New York	not named

Every fire recorded in Washington County

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 Brown's Tavern: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Limestone, General. 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
	D. Nichols and Son Quarry	Limestone, General	Past Producer	1892, 1925

Every working recorded in Washington County

Storms near this property

3 since 2017

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names South Hartford, the town this property stands in, in 3 storm reports between 2017 and 2024: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
May 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	South Hartford	-	Wires were downed along State Route 40 in the Town of Hartford.
May 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	South Hartford	-	A one-foot diameter tree was snapped at the stump, blocking and temporarily closing State Route 149.
July 2017	Flash Flood	South Hartford	-	Route 196 closed due to flooding in Hartford and Kingsbury.

Every storm recorded in Washington County

Maps showing this location

16 surveys

United States Geological Survey topographic sheets whose coverage includes this point. Matched by taking the coordinate the National Park Service records for this property, then testing that coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet.

1893 USGS Fort Ann quadrangle1:62500 - 2 printings
1895 USGS Fort Ann quadrangle1:62500
1898 USGS Fort Ann quadrangle1:62500
1901 USGS Fort Ann quadrangle1:62500
1903 USGS Mettawee quadrangle1:125000 - 2 printings
1904 USGS Fort Ann quadrangle1:62500 - 6 printings
1944 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:24000 - 3 printings
1944 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:31680
1946 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:31680
1947 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:25000
1950 USGS Glens Falls quadrangle1:250000
1956 USGS Glens Falls quadrangle1:250000 - 3 printings
1959 USGS Glens Falls quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1964 USGS Glens Falls quadrangle1:250000
1986 USGS Glens Falls quadrangle1:100000 - 2 printings
1989 USGS Glens Falls quadrangle1:100000

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
Elisha Straight House	1.6 miles	2004
Hartford Baptist Church and Cemetery	1.6 miles	2004
Old Stone House Library, The	6.2 miles	2013
South Granville Congregational Church and Parsonage	6.4 miles	2005
Lemuel Haynes House	6.6 miles	1975
Town-Hollister Farm	7.3 miles	2008

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 00001154 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Washington County	All 52 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.
Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.
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.
Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.