After the first Uncle Tom's Cabin burned down in 1879, new residential housing, West's Hotel, was built in 1880 on the same site at the northwest corner of Main St. and the Railroad Tracks.
"Hotel West. Twenty-seven years of continuous service for Sugar Grove. The following is printed from a Catalogue of Sugar Grove School 1895: 'Wm. West, our able hotel man, the owner and proprietor of 'Uncle Tom's Cabin,' furnishes table board from…