{"id":2048,"slug":"golden-lamb-lebanon-ohio","story":[{"heading":null,"paragraphs":["The Golden Lamb is Ohio's oldest — the 1803 license for $4, the twelve presidents who've eaten there. The Dickens is the literary — the American Notes visit, the Stowe and Twain and Haley who came. The Sarah is the ghost — the Stubbs girl who lived to 79, the childhood room that's the legend anyway.","The stagecoach was the business — the Cincinnati-to-National Road stop, the travelers who made it famous. The rooms are the named — the president's rooms that are marked, the Shaker museum on the fourth floor. The Golden Lamb is the continuous — the 220 years that never closed, the inn that's the state's longest.","The file keeps the Golden Lamb: the 1803 founding, the twelve presidents, the Sarah Stubbs legend, and the continuity.","The Golden Lamb is the archive's Lebanon file — the oldest Ohio business."]},{"heading":"Why this file matters","paragraphs":["The Golden Lamb is the archive's Lebanon file — the presidents' tavern.","An inn keeps its continuity — the file's suggestion being that the Lamb's hold is the unbroken: the $4 license, the presidents who ate, and the girl's ghost who didn't die there."]}],"name":"Golden Lamb","aliases":[],"type":"INN","type_label":"Inn","cats":["LOCAL_FOLKLORE","HISTORIC_HOTEL","HISTORIC_INN"],"groups":["legends","lodging"],"desc":"1803 inn that hosted twelve presidents—and a small roster of ghosts.","full_desc":"Golden Lamb is an inn in Lebanon, Ohio, built in 1803. 1803 inn that hosted twelve presidents—and a small roster of ghosts. HauntHunt files it with historic inns, historic hotels and local folklore. Ask the file who haunts it and it answers: Clementine. The dossier holds 1 reported claim, 1 legend, 1 documented fact and 1 named or described presence — documented record and retelling kept side by side. It still takes guests.","address":null,"city":"Lebanon","county":null,"state":"Ohio","postal":null,"region":"Midwest","lat":39.435,"lon":-84.2081,"coord_kind":"EXACT","status":"ACTIVE","access":"PUBLIC","access_notes":null,"ownership":null,"website":null,"phone":null,"year_built":1803,"year_opened":1803,"year_closed":null,"year_demolished":null,"designation":null,"current_use":null,"research_notes":"New record from encyclopedia/official-source pass; VERIFY task auto-queued for primary-source corroboration.","stage":"SOURCE_RESEARCH","quality":{"level":"MEDIUM","score":70,"dims":{"location_confidence":0.75,"identity_confidence":0.65,"historical_confidence":0.8,"source_quality":0.3999999999999999,"paranormal_claim_provenance":0.8,"coordinate_confidence":0.85,"current_access_confidence":0.7,"freshness":0.65}},"claims":[{"id":1272,"type":"NAMED_GHOST_LEGEND","description":"Inn lore describes Clementine, a former maid, and a girl who died in the house in 1843. The Lebanon hotel's reports are the kind old lodgings accumulate — footsteps after hours, presences in rooms, the house working the night shift. It circulates as local folklore — the kind communities keep rather than verify. Sources including 'Golden Lamb (Lebanon, Ohio)' keep the claim in circulation. The name gives the haunting a face, and the sightings give the name a job.","evidence":"LOCAL_FOLKLORE","evidence_label":"Local folklore","entity":"Clementine","where":null,"first_report":null,"approx_date":null,"confidence":0.8,"conflict_notes":null,"source":{"name":"Golden Lamb (Lebanon, Ohio)","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Lamb_(Lebanon,_Ohio)","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4},"conflicting_source":null,"variants":[]}],"history":[{"description":"Operating since 1803; twelve U.S. presidents have stayed under its roof. The hotel in Lebanon, Ohio has its past on record — this entry belongs to that verified layer. The fact is historically verified — the part of the file that doesn't need hedging. The detail is preserved in 'Golden Lamb (Lebanon, Ohio)'. The date is part of the site's documented spine.","evidence":"HISTORICALLY_VERIFIED","date_start":"1803","date_end":null,"confidence":null,"source":{"name":"Golden Lamb (Lebanon, Ohio)","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Lamb_(Lebanon,_Ohio)","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4}}],"legends":[{"name":null,"summary":"Inn lore describes Clementine, a former maid, and a girl who died in the house in 1843. The Lebanon hotel's reports are the kind old lodgings accumulate — footsteps after hours, presences in rooms, the house working the night shift. It survives as local folklore, which is to say it survives because people keep telling it. 'Golden Lamb (Lebanon, Ohio)' carries the account. The legend does what legends do — it explains the place in a way the records can't.","earliest":null,"evidence":"LOCAL_FOLKLORE","source":{"name":"Golden Lamb (Lebanon, Ohio)","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Lamb_(Lebanon,_Ohio)","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4}}],"entities":[{"name":"Clementine","claimed_identity":"Clementine","verified":null,"summary":"Inn lore describes Clementine, a former maid, and a girl who died in the house in 1843. The Lebanon hotel's reports are the kind old lodgings accumulate — footsteps after hours, presences in rooms, the house working the night shift. The report is preserved in sources like 'Golden Lamb (Lebanon, Ohio)'. The name travels further than the proof; the sightings keep renewing the lease.","behavior":"Inn lore describes Clementine, a former maid, and a girl who died in the house in 1843.","area":null,"first_ref":null,"source":{"name":"Golden Lamb (Lebanon, Ohio)","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Lamb_(Lebanon,_Ohio)","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4}}],"events":[],"investigations":[],"encounters":[],"media":[],"persons":[],"visitor":{"tour_availability":"Verify before visiting","notes":"Site access varies; verify before visiting.","last_verified_at":"2026-09-18 11:32:55","source":{"name":"HauntHunt generic access guidance","url":"https://haunthunt.com/about#access-guidance","publisher":"HauntHunt editorial","type":"DIRECTORY","authority":2}},"sources":[{"name":"Golden Lamb (Lebanon, Ohio)","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Lamb_(Lebanon,_Ohio)","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4}],"conflicts":[],"wiki":null,"counts":{"claims":1,"history":1,"legends":1,"entities":1,"sources":1}}