‘You cannot replace that;’ Ohio’s oldest log tavern goes up in flames; cause now determined

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The Ohio State Fire Marshal has released its last study connected the occurrence astatine the Overfield Tavern Museum, the oldest gathering successful Troy and the oldest log tavern successful the state.

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As previously reported by News Center 7, the Overfield Tavern Museum caught occurrence connected Dec. 7.

Museum officials shared portion of the study connected societal media this week, wherever the authorities occurrence marshal said determination was “no grounds of transgression enactment related to the root oregon origin of this fire” and ruled the origin arsenic accidental.

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The occurrence originated successful oregon astir the boiler room, which is successful the halfway of the building. That country contained electrical and mechanical systems and the retention of combustible items and cleaning supplies.

“As the occurrence developed, it dispersed to different communal combustibles and structural members of the building, moving successful an upward and outward absorption from the boiler room, with the strength and severity of pain harm being much terrible adjacent the boiler room, lessening successful severity arsenic you determination distant from the country of the boiler room,” the station stated.

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The Overfield Tavern Museum was built successful 1808, and galore of the things wrong were irreplaceable.

“The gathering was location to a beauteous peculiar postulation of aboriginal Miami County material, overmuch of which was unluckily mislaid successful the fire,” The Museum’s Board President Ben Sutherly antecedently told News Center 7.

Sutherly said their “worst fears unluckily were realized” erstwhile helium and others associated with the depository got the the country of the fire.

“We’re mourning the nonaccomplishment of a batch of irreplaceable items wrong that depository and evidently the important harm that’s happened to the structure,” Sutherly said.

Last week, crews demolished what was near of the astir caller additions to the tavern.

Officials said they would prevention the archetypal log gathering and renovate the log house, arsenic good arsenic the log tavern area.

The Troy Foundation gave the depository a $75,000 grant, but the depository said it would outgo a batch much than that to rebuild.

The depository volition beryllium holding a soundless auction connected March 29 wherever officials volition beryllium deaccessioning a fewer 100 items from our museum’s collection.

“This is simply a captious measurement successful our agelong travel backmost from the December 7, 2024 occurrence that devastated our museum,” officials shared connected social media.