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.
Then and now
1916 to 1991
The ground this property stands on, surveyed
75 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are
United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.
19161991
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
1 paper published in this town,
digitised by the Library of Congress and free to read. 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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