In 1701 John Scull operated a trading post here. He was the first known Englishman to visit the Indian village of Shamokin and was here as late as 1729. On October 17, 1750, Thomas and Richard Penn executed a deed for this land, including more than 800 acres, to Conrad Weiser for assisting in negotiating the 1749 treaty. Afterward, his son Samuel Weiser operated a tavern here in a two story log building adjacent to the Iroquois Indian path leading from the New York line to Philadelphia, later known as the Tulpehocken Path and used by early missionaries and travelers. On January 19, 1769, the Pennsylvania legislature authorized creation of the first road leading north, adjacent to the tavern and ending at the foot of Mahanoy Mountain, because it did not want to establish a road on unpurchased Indian lands. Samuel Weiser's will, dated November 24, 1794, left the present stone house, which he had previously built, to his widow. On January 19, 1867, the property was sold to Jacob Bower and was restored by his great-great-grandson, Steven I. Tressler, and Debbie in 2000.