Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in
1972. A historic map-sheet match is not published yet. The record needs a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary.
From the record
“The Buxton Inn, located in Granville, Ohio, is one of Ohio's oldest inns. It was built in 1812 by Orrin Granger, and has operated as a tavern and inn almost continuously since then.”
Wikipedia article Buxton Inn, CC BY-SA 4.0.
one of 52 National Register listings in Licking County · listed in 1972 · category: Building.
National Register reference number.72001029- 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 township was organized in 1807, out of the west half of Licking township, Fairfield county. The latter township then embraced all of what is now Licking county, except the Refugee lands. This being cut in two in the center, the west half was named Granville, and was, therefore, the second township organized in this territory.
The works of the Mound Builders in this township are very numerous and interesting; indeed, in number and varied character are scarcely excelled by those of Newark township. The Raccoon valley and contiguous territory constitute, probably, the most interesting territory in the State, or even in the United States for the antiquarian. Mounds of different sizes and heights, earthworks of every kind known to the historian exist here in great numbers. Numbers yet to be seen and traced may almost be counted by the hundred, while many, very many, have disappeared entirely, by the ravages of time and the plow, and live only in the memory of the oldest inhabitants. No particular care seems to be taken to preserve these mounds and works. Wherever they are in the way of the tiller of the soil, they are ruthlessly plowed down or dug away. They are disappearing with comparative rapidity, and very soon, with few exceptions, will live only in history. Occcasionally they are erected upon high peaks, or places inaccessible to the plow and cultivator, and in such places are, of course, in the best state of preservation. The traveler between Newark and Granville will observe many of these mounds, a few yet pretty well preserved, even on the extensive and rich bottoms of the Raccoon; but the better preserved works, and those probably the most interesting, are located upon the hills that shut in the valley. Captain M. M. Munson, who occupies a beautiful farm in the midst of these mounds, and who has made them something of a study, is confident that around the great Aligator mound, located not far from his house, is a complete system of mounds and earthworks that point to it as a common center. However this may be, there is certainly a large circle of works in this vicinity, extending several miles in every direction, and seemingly connected with each other and with the "Old Fort" near Newark and its contiguous works.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. Museums hold 3,059 specimens
collected within 10 miles of Buxton Inn between 1843 and
1975: 2,727 Animalia, 251 Fungi, 52 Plantae, 26 Protozoa, 3 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown.
Collected by A. Gray; W. S. Sullivant, A. P. M., A. P. Morgan and others. Each is a
physical object with a catalogue
number, and each entry opens the museum's record. This is what was
collected and kept, not a survey of what lives here - nothing can be
concluded from a species being absent.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
1 working within 5 miles of Buxton Inn: 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.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Granville, the town this property stands in, in 32 storm reports between 1995 and 2026: 26 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 2 flash flood, 1 heavy rain.
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.
Heavy rainfall caused flash flooding in the area. There were numerous reports of water flowing over roads in Union Township, Hebron, and the Buckeye Lake area. One woman was trapped in a car due to high water.
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.
Named in the fire insurance atlases
Sanborn surveyors printed an index of the
town's establishments at the front of each atlas. This property is named in
one, read straight off the scanned sheet.
When this property was proposed for the
National Register, someone wrote the case for it: what the building is,
and why it matters. That document is a federal record in the public domain.
It is quoted below word for word, never summarised. The text was read off the scanned case file by machine, so the
occasional stray character is the recogniser's and the 1970s
typewriter's.
Statement of significance
MeKinley, Charles Taft, Robert Taft, Edward Watson "Bill" Nye, William productive land. In 1804, Samuel Everitt, Jr., Levi Buttles, and Deacon left Granville, Massachusetts, arriving in Granville, Ohio, in April, 1805. with a craft shop, antique and gift shops as complementary businesses. 1812 REGISTER Conservation NATIONAL Communications Commerce Transportation losophy Architecture Aboriginal Engineering Literature Prehistoric itarian Music Military Science Landscape SIGNIFICANCE Agriculture Theater architecture is essentially original and illustrates a simple but durable Political Education Religion/Phi.
Industry More significantly, the Inn brings to memory all those who in traveling problems of sustenance prompted the people to move west in search of more Our plans for the Inn include the restoration and refurbishing of its such as Henry Ward Beecher, Harriet Beecher Stowe, James Whitcomb Riley, paid by the person receiving the mail. Social/Human- seven years old. Invention truly broad New England street.The Canal had not yet been built, however, Sculpture Rev.Joseph Cook Boston lecturer on philosophy),Theodore Tilton Mrs.Mary A.Livermore (one of the early successful woman lecturers), War General),Mrs.Ivy Baker of the United States).
York writer and lecturer),Gen.Judson Kilpatrick Civil original Plat of Granville) at3l3 E.Broadway which isa wide main guests to the area, and "The Tavern became the center for many Village W. Shepardson,Russell Conwell of Acres of Diamonds),President The "old Northwest Geneological Quarterly,l905 lists the Granger family Dean Howells and editor),Robert J. Burdette humorist), RECEIVED DEG 21 1972 The Buxton Inn is one of the oldest extant inns in Ohio. form significant for the building's time, location, and usege/ The Ignace Paderewski, Henry Ford, Mark Iwain, DeWitt Talmadge, Dr. Francis Massachusetts. Increasingly large families and increasingly difficult the location of the land purchased.
Quoted from the National Register nomination
for reference 72001029, 10 pages, held by the National Archives in Record
Group 79. See the
catalogue record.
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.
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.
Specimens. Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF), https://www.gbif.org/. Only records licensed CC0 or CC BY are used. Records licensed CC BY-NC are excluded because this site carries advertising. Images are checked individually and any whose licence is non-commercial, no-derivatives or unreadable is refused.
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.
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