History & local legend
Century Inn in Scenery Hill began as Hill’s Tavern, built by George and Stephen Hill in the late eighteenth century. Its long history of lodging and dining is reflected in stories about guests who seem to arrive without making themselves known to the staff.
Ann Clark described one such evening in a January 2022 recollection. She and three companions had come for dinner in August 2005 and noticed a couple already seated in the dining room. When the hostess greeted them as the first guests of the evening, they asked about the other diners. Walking around the end of a wall to look again, they found the room empty. The hostess suggested they might have seen two of the inn’s ghosts.
Another collected account concerns an unusually cold room and a figure seen beside its door. In winter, footprints were said to appear outside, leading away from the building’s wall. Clark’s dinner took place before the major fire of 2015 and the inn’s subsequent restoration.
