Hook's Tavern in Capon Bridge

Hook's Tavern was a late 18th-century tavern located along the Northwestern Turnpike east of Capon Bridge in Hampshire County, West Virginia. Built between 1790 and 1809 on property belonging to early Hampshire County settler Peter Mauzy, the building is an ell-shaped, clapboard-covered, two-story structure. Its construction occurred in several phases, evidenced by floors on three varying heights.

In 1840, the Hook family purchased the property and began operating the building as a tavern. Samuel Hook and John B. Sherrard obtained a hotel license on May 26, 1848, to operate the tavern as a fully functioning hotel. The Hook family and its descendants owned the tavern and its surrounding property from 1840 until 1987, when it was purchased by real estate developer Edward Noble of Atlanta, Georgia.

During the American Civil War, the tavern was commandeered by the Confederate States Army on February 3, 1862, to house 80 sick men. The building contained approximately 4,000 square feet of space, including ten rooms and two bathrooms. Its oldest section featured a large fireplace with printles upon which a crane swung pots. Hook's Tavern was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2011 before burning in an alleged arson on October 14, 2022.

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