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Title
Glen Gardner Inn Restaurant and Tap Room
Description
The history of the Glen Gardner Inn is as much the history of Glen Gardner itself as that of the Inn. One John Eveland, born Jan. 3, 1753 on a plantation along the Musconetcong River in Mansfield Township, acquired 125 acres of land from his father-in-law, Peter Van Buskirk, not long after Peter had originally purchased the land on June 10, 1772. This acreage became the farm homestead of John and Esther Eveland and, shortly thereafter, the original site of the building that is the Glen Gardner Inn.
Thus began the history of Eveland’s Tavern – a history that would span over 100 years of continual ownership by this family as father, son and grandson operated the business at this same site. The Tavern’s existence had such an impact that the area became known as Eveland. Yet legend has it that a traveling minister who became upset with the general conduct and demeanor of the area’s citizenry declared that the name Sodom was more appropriate. For some unexplained reason the name stuck.
Toward the end of the 1860’s the Gardner brothers came to town and established picture frame and chair factories. Soon there was a local industrial revolution underway, and the town fathers could point with pride to three new churches, a hotel, an academy, two grist mills, three large frame mills, a sash and blind factory, four stores, a coal and lumber yard, several shops and a railroad depot. The name of the town appropriately was changed to Glen Gardner.
