The historic inn, first built in 1857 by Pat Kelley and sold to John Stokes in 1866, was destroyed by fire in 1868 and rebuilt that same year. It is the only remaining one of five hotels that served the Inskip mining district. A gold strike in the early 1850s brought in a population of over one thousand by 1860. Inskip was the major midway station on the old Oroville-Susanville-Honey Lake Road, a distance of about 140 rugged miles of dust and mud.