Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in
1979. 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 Travellers' Rest Inn is a historic inn on the main street of Greenfield, Ohio, United States. Built in the early 19th century, it has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places because of its significance in local history.”
Wikipedia article Travellers' Rest Inn, CC BY-SA 4.0.
one of 14 National Register listings in Highland County · listed in 1979 · category: Building.
National Register reference number.79001864- 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.
Specimens collected near this property
12 of 719 shown
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. Museums hold 719 specimens
collected within 10 miles of Travellers' Rest Inn between 1880 and
1975: 482 Animalia, 198 Fungi, 31 Plantae, 8 Protozoa. 12 distinct Species records are shown.
Collected by 14505, 14519, 14555 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 National Weather Service names
Greenfield, the town this property stands in, in 25 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 10 thunderstorm wind, 9 hail, 4 flash flood, 2 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.
Several inches of water were flowing into an apartment building on South 5th Street and homes along South 6th Street. Numerous cars were also submerged in 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.
From the nomination file
3,091 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
Travellers' Rest Inn, Greenfield's first structure of This two-story structure has a gable roof of wood shingles, three In order to save the Travellers' Rest, it was moved in numbered stones when Travellers' Rest was rebuilt in 1970. The Travellers' Rest today is a rectangular cut stone structure, three bays in the front one side with two attic vents Rest - Noble Crawford - 1812". CONDITION UNALTERED RUINS _UNEXPOSED duplicates of the originals, since they were reconstructed from restoration had been stuccoed. limestone rock-faced squared and coursed rubble,was built in l8l2.
to the rear at one time, and the structure before its move and The original hand hewn beams were used when Travellers' Rest in the center rear of the structure, so that it does not take plan shape rectangular with chimneys on either end; and the original Jefferson Street and McArthur Way, approximately loo yards. GOOD were ready to receive the cross beam, it fit into the groove with- 1966,approximately one block from 147 Jefferson Street, Greenfield, CHECK ONE used as a public facility, a basement with restrooms had to be was rebuilt.It was rebuilt with such care that when the walls XEXCELLENT out even one inch of adjustment.
-FAIR The entrance to the basement area is stone lintel over the front door is in place and reads: "Travellers foundation used instead of the original stone.Since the Inn is The fireplaces are exact the foundation of poured concrete.Windows are 2/2.The original toa site diagonally across the streetto the southeast corner of bays in the front and one on the side.The wall treatment is plain; added according to code. AREAS OF
Statement of significance
/ARCHITECT first postmaster. When Crawford's daughter, Elizabeth, married Travellers' Rest the first location in Greenfield for a doctor's the Travellers' Rest was dismantled stone by stone. Great care construction. XEXPLORATION/SETTLEMENT the Inn removed with the greatest care as they studied the tech- window frames with their wooden pegs.The fireplace stones were dwelling and was used as a home and office of Dr. Thomas McGarraugh. The wood addition to the rear was demolished, and - INVENTION In 1965 Traveller's Rest was purchased by the Dominion Land
Quoted from the National Register nomination
for reference 79001864, 49 pages, held by the National Archives in Record
Group 79. See the
catalogue record.
Listed places nearby
1 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.
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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