Case Hotel, Store, Post Office, Duanesburg, NY
(once known as the The Hub Restaurant, currently Timeless Treasures Antiques)

The building which became known as the Case Hotel and Tavern and eventually the Hub Restaurant was built by John Post toward the end of the Revolutionary War. About 1820 a Mr. Edwards briefly became the proprietor until John Hogh bought it. In 1830 it was purchased by Truman Case who ran the hotel there until 1874 when he died. It then went to his son Josiah Case. Today it houses an antique shop called Timeless Treasures.

A June 1952 Duanesburg Historical Bulletin written by Rosmyn Schrade details recollections of older residents and stories they heard of the Tavern's history during the Civil War and thereafter. Folks gathered at the Tavern awaiting the stage and twice a week newspaper from Albany. During the Civil War relatives and friends of servicemen gathered there for the reading of the war news. Cattle drovers stopped overnight there. For many years the U.S. Post Office was located in the Case Tavern. The Town Board met at the Case Tavern Hall and back in the days when town officers were elected at annual town meetings, the town meetings were held in the same hall. Fancy horse drawn vehicles arriving from New York on the boat at Albany, stopped at the tavern. A single bed was 35 cents. A meal 15 to 25 cents. The Tavern was used by medicine shows, and other public activities.

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