GOLDEN LAMB
Inn — Lebanon, Ohio
Status: Operating · Access: Open to public · est. 1803
Dossier: https://haunthunt.com/place/golden-lamb-lebanon-ohio/

1803 inn that hosted twelve presidents—and a small roster of ghosts.

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.

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.

WHY THIS FILE MATTERS
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.

FILED CLAIMS — 1 on record, reported not verified
· [Local folklore] named ghost legend: 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.
  source: Golden Lamb (Lebanon, Ohio) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Lamb_(Lebanon,_Ohio))

HISTORY — 1 documented facts
· [1803] 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.

SOURCES — 1 cited
· Golden Lamb (Lebanon, Ohio) — Wikipedia
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Lamb_(Lebanon,_Ohio)

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