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Steenrod's Tavern (site)
342 National Road
Wheeling, WV 26003According to the Ohio County Public Library, this tavern is no longer standing.
From Searight's The Old Pike (1894):
Next comes Steenrod's, two miles out from Wheeling, a brick and stone building on the south side of the road, and a widely known old tavern. Daniel Steenrod, the old landlord, owned the property, and was a man of intelligence and much influence. His son, Lewis, represented the Wheeling district in Congress during the prosperous era of the road, and, as before stated, was one of its most zealous champions. Lewis Steenrod, a grandson of the old landlord, is at this time (1892), High Sheriff of Ohio county, West Virginia, and on November 18th of this year, executed Maier, the murderer. Daniel Steenrod kept the old tavern last mentioned as early as 1825, and probably before that date, and continued throughout the whole period of the road's great career as a national highway. He died April 27th, 1864, aged eighty years. The property still remains in the Steenrod family.
From the Wheeling Register, 4 Jan. 1920, pg. 8:
Traveling still westward and only two miles from Wheeling, the brick and stone mansion that was also a tavern, belonging to Daniel Steenrod, was located. It is standing today as a monument to the substantial builders of one hundred years ago. Daniel Steenrod, the old landlord, was a man of intelligence and great influence. His son Lewis represented the Wheeling district in the Congress during the prosperous era of the National road, and was one of its most zealous champions.
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