The Sandford Duncan Inn was built around 1819. The inn is a log structure covered with plank weatherboarding a few years later. By 1822 it was operating as a roadside inn providing services to travelers on the Cumberland Trace, a very important frontier era road. Stagecoach passengers here found food and drink and overnight lodging.
The Inn was a stagecoach stop on the Nashville to Louisville Pike in the early 1800’s. It was the site of a noted dueling ground. Several prominent Tennesseans fought duels here to escape prosecution in their home state.