Help save the historic Old Tavern

As part of our ongoing efforts in the Ohio community, the Great Lakes Medieval Faire would like to ask for your support in obtaining a grant to help repair and restore the The Old Tavern in Unionville, OH. This historic building is in desperate need of repair and we have the opportunity to receive a grant to help repair it. The grant is being given through the National Trust for Historic Preservation - there are several candidates for the grant, and whichever project receives the most votes will will the funds.

As of June 17th we were in 13th place; we need your vote to get to #1.
To vote, go to: http://www.preservationnation.org/take-action/this-place-matters/community-challenge/places/madison-historical-society.html

First known as the Webster House, later as the New England House and finally as the Old Tavern, this stagecoach stop / inn has served travelers on the old Cleveland-Buffalo Road (now State Route 84) since before Ohio became a state. As traffic on the old Indian trail increased and it became a post and stage road, the two original log cabins, built in 1798 and later, were converted to this two-and-a-half story inn between 1815 and 1820. While the tavern was the scene of Civil War-era parties and dances in the second-floor ballroom, local tradition suggests it offered much more clandestine hospitality to escaping slaves as a station on the Underground Railroad. The Unionville Tavern was added to the National Register of Historical Places in 1973. Through out its years in operation, it has had such influential guests as Thomas Edison, Henry Ford and even Harriet Beecher Stowe while she conducted research for her runaway slave novel, "Uncle Tom's Cabin".