Inntiquity, A Country Inn
In 1849 Levi Brown started his Percheron imported horse farm on a land grant from Millard Fillmore. The family maintained the Old Michigan Road toll road on this property. The toll house was located in the house across from CR 100. In the 1860's milk cows were added in a section of the barn. A dairy was operated here until the 1970s. Julia Cappel, a great-great grandmoth
er, inherited the farm in 1888 and moved to Logansport from Plymouth. A painting, painted in 1904, by an Indiana artist, Wills Berry of the farm showing Pleasant Valley Dairy hangs in the front office. The house and the barn were both built in 1849 and faced each other, as the road wasn't considered important. The property sat empty until 1934 when Helen and George Naftzger moved in. The barn cupola was lost to another tornado. In the 1980s we were trying to find a way to keep the property in the family for another generation. We then considered turning the large barn into a country inn similar to the ones we had seen in California and Virginia. We started to add to our collection of architectural fixtures and antique furnishings by attending auctions, building sales, bankruptcies, and demolitions. Ten to twelve years later, we opened Inntiquity, A Country Inn to the public, enabling us to host wondering interesting guest, some neighbors, and some from all the world!
