Abandoned photography of places & buildings throughout the U.S.

Mudhouse Road was named for the first brick-and-mortar building in the area; the old Mudhouse Tavern used to stand where Zane's Trace crossed Mudhouse Road. The property was purchased in two parts, in 1839 and 1852, from Abraham Kagy and Henry Byler, by Christian and Eleanor Rugh. One legend tells of a government official who lived there after the Civil War and still kept slaves (in the North, too), locking them in one of the outbuildings at night. One night the slaves dug his way out, entered the house, and slaughtered the entire family. Some say a more modern family was massacred there; their ghosts haunt the house.