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To help familiarize you with this fine neighborhood, please read our brief history about Troutville, VA.  It’s interesting.

A Brief History of Troutville, Virginia

The Brugh Tavern, Troutville, Virginia

The Brugh Tavern at Virginia's Explore Park is both restoration project and eating establishment. Originally built as a private residence between 1780 and 1800, it also served as a tavern during the early decades of the 19th century while under the ownership of the Daniel Brugh family. It remained a popular and well-known Botetourt County landmark to travelers passing through the area, many of whom were following the nearby Great Philadelphia Wagon Road to westward destinations.

The Brugh Tavern is a lasting testament to the rugged, enterprising spirit of Virginia’s early German communities. Like many of their contemporaries, the Brugh family immigrated to Virginia in the early 1790s after initially settling in Pennsylvania. The sale of their landholdings there financed the purchase of several hundred acres near present-day Troutville. In 1809, Daniel Brugh applied for the first license for Brugh’s Tavern; his son John renewed the license in the following decades. Within a short time, the tavern had become the nucleus of a vibrant agricultural and commercial center that eventually included a gristmill, sawmill, distillery, store, and large threshing barn.

Typical of early American “ordinaries,” the Brugh Tavern was an important center of social activity for resident and traveler alike. Here local news was received and disseminated, traveling merchants peddled their wares, and neighbors congregated in order to carry out private business. In these ways, the Brugh Tavern served to cultivate an enduring bond that gave form and function to the lives of many 19th century Botetourt County residents.

The Brugh House/Tavern, according to Virginia Department of Historic Resources records, was “potentially one of the earliest and most interesting houses in Botetourt County.”  It is unique in that it illustrates, in its purest form, that transmission of German ethnicity to the Blue Ridge. The Brugh experience also demonstrates the German tendency toward communal settlement and their flair for entrepreneurship