The adjacent property, 2358 Dayton-Xenia Road, is affectionately known as The Old Stage Coach Inn.  A popular stopping place between Yellow Springs and Dayton, it offered a livery stable for 12 to 14 horses.  Built in 1810 by Frank Stoll, it is a modified Vernacular style.  Built beside an Indian trail, and also thought to have been a slave trail, the house has a small dirt dugout with a small entrance door under the living room floor; it could have easily hidden three or four people.

Folklore includes a story of Abraham Lincoln once staying overnight at the inn while touring the area on his 1859 Presidential campaign, but research has proven this to be untrue.  Lincoln's train did make a 5 minute whistle stop in Xenia before proceeding through Alpha enroute to Dayton, where he gave a sparsely attended speech at the courthouse.  Later that evening, Lincoln delivered a modified speech in Cincinnati that changed the course of his campaign to become the sixteenth president of the United States.

In 1887, while the new high school was under construction, classes for the 20 pupils were held in an upstairs room of the Inn.  In 1900, it was purchased as a blacksmith shop by Charly Johannes.

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