Inn at Fowlerstown

1001 Washington Pike (WV 27), Wellsburg, West Virginia. County/parish: Brooke.

Added to the National Register of Historic Places October 29, 1992. NRIS 92001483.

6 contributing buildings.

Also known as:

  • Drover's Inn

From Wikipedia:

Inn at Fowlerstown

Inn at Fowlerstown, also known as Drover's Inn, is a historic hotel located near Wellsburg in Brooke County, West Virginia, United States. The inn was built between 1848 and 1851, and is a 2½-story brick building in the Greek Revival style. The property also includes a two-story log house (1820) and frame cottage that pre-date the inn. Contributing outbuildings are a small clapboard well house, chicken coop, and privy. Before 1938, the inn housed a general store and post office that served the small village of Fowlerstown. The village grew up around along Washington Pike at the grist mill established by William Fowler.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.

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National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/86534839

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