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Earl's tavern of 1836 is the first stand — tavern, polling place, and travellers' house in one. Its closing date is unreached. The directory keeper line runs Rudy Shirk (1880–81) to Henry Cordary — also printed "Cordray," the variance whole — to George Deed, "hotel and livery" (1884–85), and no hotel is listed by 1916–17: the railroad-age trade gone from print. The Forrest Hotel prints at exactly the size the record gives: the building is attested (the IHB marker file 71.2019.1; town memory; the spelling Forrest/Forest varies across carriers and prints both ways), while no proprietor attaches in any carrier reached — the business-gaps file's gap, its settlers the Standard run and the marker file's research; the one fossil is the 1875 Atlas directory's detached row, "Proprietor of the Forrest Hotel," its name lost in the column split. The motel era prints negative, and November 2026 listing checks confirm the present state: no hotel or motel operates in Lakeville today.