National Register reference number.75001376- 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.
Storms near this property
30 since 1996
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Sunbury, the town this property stands in, in 30 storm reports between 1996 and 2024: 20 thunderstorm wind, 7 hail, 2 flash flood, 1 tornado.
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.
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.
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
the days of stagecoach travel, had some distinguished guests the second floor porch and Presidents Hayes and Harrison The building was one of the earliest in Delaware county, and is featured in I. T. Early Homes of Ohio as an example of an Ohio tavern which has a decidely "southern" atmosphere. 1812 in Licking County, and listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The Sunbury Tavern is now known as the Hopkins House, a boarding *Minnie Hite Moody, a local writer-historian, says that the architect, Benjamin of Boston, was reportedly the designer for both the Buxton Inn and the Sunbury Inn.
DEC 11 1974 Commerce Conservation losophy Architecture Communications REGISTER Theater Aboriginal NATIONAL Music Literature itarian RECEIVED Agriculture Sculpture Invention Engineering Industry Education during the nineteenth century-Henry Clay made a speech from Urban Planning were overnight visitors. Sunbury is located in Berkshire township which was organized Prehistoric The Sunbury Tavern was built in 1804 by Joe Adams on property building and quite rare in Ohio. AREAS OF SIGNIFICANCE (Check One or More as Appropriate) In appearance it is very much like the Buxton Inn, built in Military Art
Quoted from the National Register nomination
for reference 75001376, 17 pages, held by the National Archives in Record
Group 79. See the
catalogue record.
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.
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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