Treber Inn

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976. 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

“Parti*'an politics and its debauching influences caused the killing of Samuel Greenlee by Albert Adamson on the day following the presidential election in 1888. West Union was crowded with Republicans rejoicing over Harrison's election, and Samuel Greenlee, who had recently before joined their organization, and who had been drinking heavily for some days, was among the joUifiers.”
History of Adams County, Ohio (1900). Machine-read text.

one of 12 National Register listings in Adams County · listed in 1976 · category: Building.

Sources: the county history on the Internet Archive · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. 5 mi. NE of West Union on OH 41, West Union, 45693
When was it listed? 1976-05-17
Category. building
Township. Tiffin township
National Register reference number. 76001358 - 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

7,452 words

The chapter on Tiffin Township in History of Adams County, Ohio, published 1900 names West Union. This is what it says, exactly as the scans read.

Joseph Eyler built the first cabin in this township where he afterwards made his home near Killinstown, in the winter of 1795. The Eyler farm of 300 acres is now owned by John Crawford, Samuel Mc- Feeters and Sandy Craigmile. When Rev. James B. Fintey passed over Tod's Trace from Limestone to Chillicothe with his father's cattle and "niggers" in 1796, he noted the fact that there was a cabin near where the town of West Union now stands, built by Mr. Oiler, but no one lived in - it. Daniel Collier, about this time, selected a site for his future home on one of the most beautiful terraces along Ohio Brush Creek, known to this day as the "Collier farm." Just below him on the creek was Duncan McKenzie. Andrew Ellison took up his residence on Lick Fork near the old stone house which he built in 1798, where the town of Waterford was laid out. Richard Harrison about the same time located at Waterford and kept a tavern there. John Treber built a cabin in 1796 a half mile further down Lick Fork where the old tavern building yet stands, and Peter Shoemaker, Simon Shoemaker, John Shepherd, and Thomas Davis located near by on Ohio Brush Creek. Job Dinning, John Killin, Jacob Piatt, James Ralston, and Adam Hempleman located in the vicinity of Killinstown. Simon Fields settled further east on Brush Creek. George Harper, James Collins, James January and Robert Mc- Clanahan located near West Union.

Passage source: History of Adams County, Ohio, published 1900.

Ohio Brush Creek, a beautiful little river, forms the northeastern and eastern boundary of the township. Lick Fork is its longest tributary in the township. It rises at a spring near West Union and flows north- east uniting with Ohio Brush Creek at the Sproull bridge. Beasley's Fork also takes its source from a spring in West Union, flows southeast and unites with Ohio Brush Creek opposite the Nathan Foster farm in Greene Township. A branch of the East Fork of Eagle Creek rises in the western part of the township and flows south along its western border.

Passage source: History of Adams County, Ohio, published 1900.

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 Tiffin Township - 7,452 words on its settlement, mills, schools and churches.

Fires near this property

44 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 44 fires within 5 miles of Treber Inn between 2003 and 2020, burning about 86 acres in total. None started naturally. 7 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
Debris and open burning	22
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	11
Arson/incendiarism	7
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Smoking	1
Other causes	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
21 August 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	9916
4 July 2012	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	not named
20 July 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	15229
1 July 2017	Smoking	under an acre	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	8465
1 May 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	15184
1 May 2008	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	not named
8 April 2013	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	not named
8 April 2004	Arson/incendiarism	3.0 acres	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	not named

Every fire recorded in Adams County

Specimens collected near this property

12 of 1,399 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 1,399 specimens collected within 10 miles of Treber Inn between 1866 and 1975: 578 Fungi, 491 Animalia, 296 Plantae, 34 Protozoa. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. B. Seymour, A. Braun, A. Cronquist 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.

Species	Year	Collected by	Where, as recorded
Puccinia lateripes Berk. & Ravenel	1879	A. B. Seymour	Adams County
Apiosporina collinsii (Schwein.) Höhn.	1900	W.A. Kellerman	Mineral Springs
Puccinia smilacis Schwein.	1900	W.A. Kellerman
Asplenium ruta-muraria L.	1866	C. B. Dyer
Pleopeltis michauxiana (Weath.) Hickey & Sprunt	1866	C. B. Dyer
Stigmella platani Fuckel	1892	Kellerman W. A.	Mineral Springs
Phyllachora graminis (Pers.) Fuckel	1900	Kern W. A.	Mineral Springs
Acroneuria frisoni Stark & Brown, 1991	1925	Clarence H. Kennedy
Baeomyces byssoides (L.) P.Gaertn., B.Mey. & Scherb.	1925	Muegel, Harry R.	Mineral Springs, Oak Ridge
Cladonia amaurocraea (Flörke) Schaer.	1925	Braun, E. Lucy	Mineral Springs, Oak Ridge
Cladonia cristatella Tuck.	1925	Braun, E. Lucy	Mineral Springs, Oak Ridge
Cladonia fimbriata (L.) Fr.	1925	Braun, E. Lucy	Mineral Springs, Oak Ridge

All 1,399 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

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 Treber Inn: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
	Ohio Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer

Every working recorded in Adams County

Storms near this property

60 of 70 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names West Union, the town this property stands in, in 70 storm reports between 1995 and 2025: 32 thunderstorm wind, 15 hail, 11 flash flood, 8 flood. The reports record 1 death and 2 injuries. 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
March 2012	Tornado (EF2)	West Union	1 killed, 2 hurt, $2,000,000	The tornado touched down just east of Highway 41, about 2 miles northeast of West Union. The tornado then traveled east northeast for just over 11 miles, destroying at least 5 mobile homes. Two homes were also damaged. One of these homes was built of brick. A 99 year old woman was in her mobile home in Tiffin Township when the tornado struck. She was injured from this tornado and passed away several days later. Two others were also injured from this tornado. A dozen cattle were killed and major power transmission poles were knocked over. Numerous trees were snapped or uprooted. Based on the damage surveyed, the maximum estimated wind speed of this tornado was 125 miles per hour.
May 2014	Hail	West Union	$200,000	Damage occurred to houses and vehicles due to the hail.
November 2002	Tornado (F1)	West Union	$100,000	A tornado touched down and tracked east along State Route 125. The greatest damaged occurred at a farm where four barns were damaged, one of which was completely destroyed. Two nearby homes and a church sustained minor structural damage. At least three dozen trees were also downed along the path of the tornado.
August 1997	Tornado (F0)	West Union	$100,000	This thunderstorm had a long line of downbursts which caused damage to numerous trees, some of which fell on a house and a mobile home. Embedded within this path of damage was evidence that a tornado made brief touchdowns. In two different areas, tree damage showed twisting motion indicating that a tornado existed. Also, one home was knocked off its foundation in one of the areas where the tornado touched down. Winds from some of the downburst activity were near 100 mph.
May 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	West Union	$50,000	Several trees were downed near State Route 125 and Ralston Road due to thunderstorm winds. Numerous trees and power lines were also downed between West Union and Blue Creek.
May 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	West Union	$50,000	no account filed
April 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	West Union	$30,000	Damage was noted to several trees as well as a mobile home.
August 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	West Union	$15,000	Trees and power lines downed. One tree fell on a house causing damage.
July 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	West Union	$10,000	Several trees and power lines were downed in the West Union area.
July 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	West Union	$10,000	A pole was snapped in half and wires were downed onto a roadway.
May 2014	Hail	West Union	$10,000	Siding was damaged and windows were broken on Vaughn Ridge Road due to the hail.
July 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	West Union	$10,000	Numerous trees were downed from Manchester to West Union due to thunderstorm winds.
June 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	West Union	$10,000	Several trees were knocked down. One structure sustained roof damage.
May 2001	Flash Flood	West Union	$10,000	Many roads were flooded and some were closed due to heavy rainfall.
August 2000	Flash Flood	West Union	$10,000	Heavy rainfall caused a road to be washed out.
August 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	West Union	$8,000	A few power poles were blown down.
April 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	West Union	$6,000	Several power poles were downed.
May 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	West Union	$6,000	Trees were downed, one on an automobile. Warren County Springboro,14,0033EST,,,0,0,0,0,Hail (0.75)
May 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	West Union	$5,000	Several trees were downed in the West Union area.
June 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	West Union	$5,000	Several trees were downed.
July 2016	Flash Flood	West Union	$5,000	Several roads were covered with rushing water across central Adams County. One house had a few feet of water in the basement.
June 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	West Union	$5,000	A tree fell onto a house. There were also reports of other trees down around the area.
January 2008	Flash Flood	West Union	$5,000	The Eddies Apartment complex in West Union was evacuated due to rising water. One vehicle was stranded in the high water.
June 2008	Flash Flood	West Union	$5,000	Several roads were flooded and closed with one to two feet of water rushing over them, including State Route 41 between State Route 136 and Panhandle Road. Numerous streams were out of their banks and overflowing roadways.
June 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	West Union	$5,000	Several trees were downed across the southern part of the county.
February 2000	Flash Flood	West Union	$5,000	Heavy rainfall caused State Route 41 southwest of West Union to flood.
August 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	West Union	$4,000	Numerous trees were reported knocked down.
January 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	West Union	$4,000	Numerous trees were knocked down, including along old State Route 32 and Mineral Springs Road.
June 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	West Union	$3,000	Several trees were knocked down and were blocking the intersection of OH-125 between Raiston Rd and Frank Young Rd.
July 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	West Union	$3,000	A roof to a house was damaged and a billboard along State Route 41 was also damaged.
May 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	West Union	$3,000	Several trees were downed.
May 2010	Flash Flood	West Union	$3,000	Flooded roadways were reported throughout the county.
July 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	West Union	$3,000	Trees were knocked down along Bethany Ridge Road.
August 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	West Union	$3,000	A few trees were downed.
August 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	West Union	$3,000	Several trees were downed along State Route 136.
October 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	West Union	$3,000	Four trees were knocked down in the southern part of the county.
June 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	West Union	$3,000	Trees and power lines downed.
August 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	West Union	$3,000	no account filed
May 2011	Flood	West Union	$2,000	Multiple roads were closed due to water on roads.
May 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	West Union	$2,000	Numerous trees were reported down due to damaging thunderstorm winds.
June 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	West Union	$2,000	Several trees were blown down.
August 2007	Hail	West Union	$2,000	no account filed
September 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	West Union	$1,000	A tree was downed along Chapparal Road.
June 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	West Union	$1,000	A tree was knocked down along Old Cincinnati Pike near Wednell Shrivener Road.
October 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	West Union	$1,000	Large tree limbs were reported down due to damaging thunderstorm winds.
May 2022	Flood	West Union	-	High water was reported on State Route 41, south of West Union.
May 2022	Flood	West Union	-	Water was covering half of an apartment complex parking lot.
April 2021	Flood	West Union	-	Water was flowing across Paige School Road.
April 2021	Flood	West Union	-	Water was reported across State Route 247 near Chapparal Road.
August 2021	Flash Flood	West Union	-	High water was reported on several roadways.
February 2019	Flood	West Union	-	Several roads were closed due to flooding.
May 2016	Flood	West Union	-	One to one and a half feet of water was covering Ohio Route 247 north of West Union.
December 2015	Heavy Rain	West Union	-	Multiple roads were closed across the county due to high water.
March 2006	Flash Flood	West Union	-	Several roads were flooded and closed.
March 2006	Flood	West Union	-	Heavy rain affected south central Ohio during the evening, with some locations receiving over one inch across Adams County. The heavy rain caused some high water over State Route 41 near Bentonville.
May 2003	Flash Flood	West Union	-	Several roads were closed due to high water. Ohio Brush Creek was out of its banks in a couple of spots.
May 2003	Flash Flood	West Union	-	State Route 41 was flooded and impassible.
June 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	West Union	-	Winds gusted to 60 mph.
August 2024	Hail	West Union	-	no account filed
July 2023	Hail	West Union	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Adams County

Newspapers printed here

0 digitised pages

1 paper published in this town, digitised by the Library of Congress and free to read: 0 issues, 0 pages. Every page is searchable, so a name or a street can be looked for directly in what the town printed about itself at the time.

Newspaper	Published
The People's Defender	1866 to Current

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.

From the nomination file

2,103 words on record

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.

Description of the property

section has clapboard siding. A fieldstone chimney is located on the interior of the south exterior chimney with a small attic door beside it in the gable. The south side has a The roof on this addition is also metal, standing seam. CONDITION UNEXPOSED DETERIORATED RUINS EXCELLENT against the exterior log wall whereas the other two sides jut out into the living space east and has a double open frame porch which extends the entire width of the house.This side of the log structure and is unusual in that it is triangular shaped.One side is thereby making it possible to have two fireplaces on each floor providing heat for four An original two-bay open frame porch is attached to the stone section on this same side.
side of this log section has two windows on the upper story -a 2/o single hung sash on removed and altered to create a doorway for a small frame bathroom added that same year. separate rooms but with just one chirmey stack. CHECK ONE the north end and a 6/6 on the south end.The lower floor has one 3/l window on the north addition has a3 bay open frame porch which is original.This side has a single door The one story lx3 bay fieldstone rubble)addition built circa 1810 is attached to in the east end on the first floor that was cut in the home circa l9oo.The rear single door entrance.Untill973one window existed on the east side of this door but was X.FAIR The original 2x3 bay two story hewn log section of the structure built in 1798 faces DATE sides.

Read the complete 2,103-word case file.

Statement of significance

farms with his son, Jacob.
Jacob continued to use the house as an inn until Hostelry RELIGION PERIOD ARCHEOLOGY-HISTORIC INVENTION ECONOMICS ART MILITARY ARCHITECTURE PHILOSOPHY SIGNIFICANCE TRANSPORTATION SCULPTURE POLITICS/GOVERNMENT THEATER LITERATURE _ENGINEERING XEXPLORATION/SETTLEMENT dwelling.A one story fieldstone kitchen/dining room was added to the rear circa family home and an inn until about 185o.Since then it has served as a private _CONSERVATION _COMMERCE Jackson, Henry Clay and Senator Thomas Hart Benton.Treber Inn was one of the 1810.Treber was from Maryland and had settled on the site in 1796-97.When the the primary stagecoach stops in the area.One small room upstairs in the inn is SOCIAL/HUMANITARIAN travel.Many noted travelers stopped here during its "heyday including Andrew still designated as the stagecoach driver's room.In 1825 John Treber traded first permanent structures built on Zane's Trace first road) and is one about 185o when the introduction of the railroad brought an end to stagecoach _PREHISTORIC Treber Inn was built on Zane's Trace in l798 by John Treber and served as a BUILDER/ARCHITECT John Treber - 1400-1499 -SCIENCE - 1800-1899 -1500-1599 _EDUCATION -_1600-1699 -1900- _MUSIC - _INDUS.TRY LAW _COMMUNITY PLANNING After the trace was widened to accomodate stagecoaches, Treber Inn became one of ARCHEOLOGY-PREHISTORIC Treber Inn was built, Zane's Trace was passable only by foot or on horseback.
of the last remaining "original" buildings on the old road.

The whole case file for this property - 2,103 words, 16 pages, reproduced complete.

Quoted from the National Register nomination for reference 76001358, 16 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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Cockerill House	4.9 miles	1978
West Union Presbyterian Church	4.9 miles	1976
Woods, Tet, Building	5.0 miles	1982
Harshaville Covered Bridge	5.1 miles	1976
Kirker Covered Bridge	7.7 miles	1975
Kirker, Gov. Thomas, Homestead	8.0 miles	1975

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 76001358 in Record Group 79.
Adams County	All 12 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.
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.