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Casselman Inn
Formerly/Also Known As Drover's Inn, Farmer's Hotel, Farmer's House, Dorsey's Hotel
113 East Main Street
Grantsville, MD 21536(301) 895-5055 www.thecasselman.com Historical marker text:
You are standing in front of the Casselman Inn, which was opened in 1842 by Solomon Sterner. This establishment has also been known as Sterner House, Drovers' Inn, Farmers' Hotel and Dorsey Hotel. There was a large outdoor corral here during the years when it was a major stop for cattle drovers. The Miller Family acquired the property in 1964 and continues its tradition of hospitality.
The white cast iron mile marker here is one of many that were installed in 1835 when the State of Maryland took over responsibility for the National Road from the federal government. These markers show how far it is to each end of the road (Cumberland, MD and Wheeling, WV) as well as how far it is to the next towns. From this marker, Frostburg, MD to the east and Petersburgh (now Addison, PA) to the west are the next towns.
From Searight's The Old Pike (1894):
Solomon Steiner [sic] also kept a tavern in Grantsville during a portion of the prosperous era of the road. Grantsville seems to have been a favorite locality for tavern keepers of German names and antecedents. Steiner's tavern was a brick building, and stood on the opposite side of the road from the old Shultz House. Steiner built it, owned it, and died in it, and his son, Archibald, conducted it for a number of years after his father's death. It was a wagon stand. Archibald Steiner was succeeded in his father's old house, first, by William Shaw, and thereafter in turn by John Millinger and Jonas E. Canagy, the present proprietor, and it is now called the Farmer's House.
From the Maryland Historical Trust (1976):
The Casselman Inn stands on the north side of Main Street (U.S. Route 40) on the northeastern corner of its intersection with Dorsey Hotel Road in Grantsville. The building is a circa 1842 Greek Revival brick structure 2 1/2 storys [sic] high, with a stone foundation, gable roof, and double end chimneys. The principal facade has five bays with center doorways on each level. The doorways have multiple panel doors with rectangular sidelights and transoms with tracery. The windows have narrow frames that curve out, typical of the 1840s in this area, and double hung wooden sashes with two-over-two lights. A large one-story porch, not original, runs across the front. The roof has a large (not original) dormer with three windows on the facade.
The interior of the Casselman has a center hall, four-over-four room arrangement with symmetrical molding. The front door has a Carpenter and Company lock (circa 18405). Some of the rooms have circa 1900 elements mixed with the original. A modern dining room wing juts to the northeast.
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