The Compass Inn is a place to receive an informative and entertaining tour by costumed docents that tells the story of transportation and everyday life in the early 1800's. The tour delivers "history with a smile" by incorporating a generous sprinkling of etymology (word and phrase origins). For example you can learn why we drink in “bars” and “toast” people.
Staying in a hotel was very different in 1820 than it is today. You have to see it to appreciate it. The 1-1/2 hour tour includes the original Inn, and three reconstructed outbuildings: a cookhouse, blacksmith shop and barn, all completely furnished with period pieces.
The Barn
The barn features an authentic stagecoach and a Conestoga wagon, complete with a six-horse hitch. Both vehicles were important to history in America, but in very different ways. Discover what it was like to travel in a stagecoach and learn the role it played in fostering communication across this large nation.
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