In 1805, Jacob Miller bought this property at the Congressional Land Office in Chillicothe, capital of the new state of Ohio, for $1.50 an acre. He and Somerset co-founder John Finck each built a tavern on opposite sides of town along Zane’s Trace, laid out on existing Indian trails in 1796-1797 and Ohio’s first major thoroughfare; Finck built his home and tavern in 1807 and Miller built his shortly afterward. From 1800 to 1815, Zane’s Trace carried heavy traffic between the established eastern states and the newly opened Northwest Territory, as emigrants moved westward and kept tavern-keepers constantly busy. Along with running his tavern and farming, Miller served the public as Overseer of the Poor in 1809, helping place poor children with families able to care for them, and also as township supervisor and Fence Viewer, responsible for keeping fence lines true and legal. During the War of 1812, soldiers were recruited at the tavern to join General William H. Harrison’s army. Miller died in 1823 in his forties after providing for his wife Catherine and their two sons and two daughters, writing in his will that he willed “my soul to heaven and my body to dust.” One of Ohio’s oldest two-story log taverns, the building later became the boyhood home of Civil War General Philip Sheridan after his parents, John and Mary, bought it when they came to Somerset in 1834. The tavern and Pigsfoot Square are part of the Somerset Historic District, placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.