Built in 1821 a quarter mile downstream on the west bank of the Auglaize by War of 1812 veteran Sebastian Sroufe and his wife Mary, this home served as the postal stop Sugar Grove on the Fort Recovery–Fort Defiance route and as the site of the 1828 Perry Township organization meeting. On January 24, 1829, Sebastian was appointed the first postmaster in Putnam County. Seven years after Sebastian's death in 1830, Mary married Judge John Perkins, owner of Brunersburg Mill, and leased her Auglaize River home. In 1846, Pearson B. Holden, pastor of the Christian Union Church, and his wife Priscilla (Ridenour) operated this double log home as a tavern housing up to thirty travelers a night, when Henry Howe sketched the Home-In-The-Wilderness for his Historical Collections of Ohio.