May 17, 2012

Dexterville Tavern

Located at the northwest corner of East Second & Buffalo Streets

The Dexterville Hotel-Tavern was a three-room frame building, forty by fifty-six feet on a stone foundation, with a front porch nineteen feet long. Remodeled in 1933 and in 1942-3, the foundation and structural framing were repaired, a second story added, the old porch enclosed, and a new front porch built.

The Dexter brothers were among the earliest settlers in Chautauqua County, coming to Mayville about 1808. They moved in 1824 to the area later called Dexterville. Here they owned and operated the tavern, a store, an ashery, a mill and a quarry. Today, Dexterville is known as East Jamestown and the Tavern as the Buffalo Grill.

A small house, presently located at 617 Winsor Street, was built in 1824 by Noah Harrington. Since then, it has purportedly been moved three times and remodeled extensively, losing its original appearance.

DEXTERVILLE TAVERN
BUILT IN 1826 BY DARIUS AND JOHN DEXTER AS A STAGE COACH STOP ON THE BUFFALO ROUTE LEADING SOUTH TO PITTSBURGH. THIS IS THE OLDEST BUILDING STANDING IN ITS ORIGINAL LOCATION IN JAMESTOWN.