Red Horse Tavern, also known as Brookside Inn and The Old Stone House, is a historic inn

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 and tavern

Tavern

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 located near Aurora

Aurora, West Virginia

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, Preston County, West Virginia

Preston County, West Virginia

As of the census of 2000, there were 29,334 people, 11,544 households, and 8,357 families residing in the county. The population density was 45 people per square mile . There were 13,444 housing units at an average density of 21 per square mile...

. It was built between 1825 and 1827, as a dwelling. In 1841, it opened as a public inn to serve travelers on the Northwestern Turnpike

Northwestern Turnpike

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. It is built of rubble stone, and has one large downstairs room and three upstairs rooms with an attic above them.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places

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in 1973, with a boundary increase in 1979.