Marcus Huling, a Swedish settler, and his wife Margareta, daughter of Mouns and Ingeborg Jones, the area's earliest European settlers, were the first innkeepers on the White Horse tract, establishing an inn in the 1720s probably in their house near the river bank. By 1750 and well into the next century, the White Horse was a prominent public house in southeastern Berks County, appearing on Nicholas Scull's Pennsylvania maps of 1759 and 1775 and on a British spy map of southeastern Pennsylvania. George Douglass I purchased the site in 1762, and the earliest section of the existing inn, the three bays on the right, was completed by 1763; the three-bay addition on the left was probably built between 1798 and 1805. While operating the nearby Amity country store, George Douglass I and George Douglass II leased the inn to successive innkeepers through the early decades of the 19th century, and the last reference to the White Horse as a tavern stand appeared in George Douglass II's 1832 will. As a wayside inn on the King's Road linking Philadelphia, Reading, and Oley, it accommodated teamsters, livestock drovers, stage drivers, and other travelers, and as a country tavern stand it served beer, ale, wine, spirits, and meals to workmen, farmers, and people from the growing crossroads community. Prices had been fixed by provincial law in 1700: a meal of pork or beef with small beer cost seven pence, and hay or grass for a horse cost six pence per night, including lodging for the horseman. The White Horse played an important civic, social, economic, and cultural role in the Amity region. During the Revolutionary War it was a primary assembly site for militia musters, and Samuel Jones, a grandson of Mouns Jones, mustered there with a local battalion in August 1776 before marching to Pennsylvania. It also served as a place for political discourse, polling, auctions of real and personal property, and meetings of the Amity Township Society for the Prevention of Horse Thievery. The inn became a hub for tavern-table conversation, the spread of news through German- and English-language newspapers, the dispatch and receipt of letters, and contact for people posting broadside notices and advertisements in regional newspapers. Unlike most country taverns of its time, it had an elegant façade of coursed, fully dressed cut stone resembling Douglass's nearby Georgian home. Its interior followed a typical smaller-inn plan, with two first-floor rooms and no hallways in the original section and one cage bar room in the later Federal-era wing, while the second floor held the proprietor's quarters and dormitory rooms for guests. By the early 20th century the structure had been converted to apartments. Acquired in 1971 by the Historic Preservation Trust, it was restored to its original floor plan and now houses the Trust's administrative offices and archiving center while serving those interested in preserving early American landmarks.