Historic Tom Quick Inn condemned as unsafe

Every effort should be made to restore the Tom Quick Inn. It is a part of Old Milford. This would be a big lost to Milford if it does not reopen. To many things have been lost in Milford. Things that made it such a wonderful place. Too many people are trying to make Milford something it never was. It was the best of best towns around.

We are saddened to hear of this terrible news. We were married in the Tom Quick Inn on September 10, 1998. We were actually planning to bring our children here to see this beautiful place where we were married. Hopefully it will be restored and be beautiful again. It will always hold a special place in our hearts!

its a shame that people these days are so P.C.,just to apeaze others.so others can think that there good.ime not the racest!they are..now you dont have the guts to take your anger out on a person ,you have to condem a hotel .for what a man may or may not have done back in the 1740s.you people are silly.

I have stopped at the inn for over 20 years on my way thru the area and this sad. I noticed it was closed this past April when I was going to stop for my usual refreshment on my way to the Canadian maritimes. Even more sad is the fact that the pioneer for whom the inn is named for is now maligned. I am a pioneer Quick descendent and to remove the monument or lose this inn is a tradgedy. As to if Tom was a villian or a hero, I guess it depends on who was under the tomahawk at the time..don't let PC rewrite the history of this area!

Hopefully someone buys it and makes it better than ever......as long as it doesn't become one of those places that's a little light in the slippers. Keep the name too. Who cares if Tom Quick was really a drunken murderer; it's Milford's folklore. Let it be.

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My God, how do we allow these new Leftist McCarthyites destroy everything. I moved from Milford (Gold Key) to Virginia Beach in 1983 (then relocated to Tampa Bay in 1990)and the one thing I miss about Pike County, besides early autumn (and maybe Mount Haven br, is The Tom Quick Inn. I went back in 1989 and again in 1994, just to go to Quick; well, at least I don't have to go back anymore.

My family started out in Pike Co. in the 30's. Generations have moved away and come back. Tom Quick is an institution. History is part of what makes Milford so wonderful. Now we have revisionists trying to make it pretty? Grow up and enjoy what you've got.

oh yea another thing,my mothers last name is quick and her family is from scranton and buck hill area ,chances are ime part of the bloodline and i use tom quick as proof that my family has been in this country for a long time..as far as the local indians go,i guess i feel bad for them becaus after the william pen walking purchase(witch i admit was not right at all)they went on a murderous rampage and killed a whole lot of people in a small p.a. town ..its a fact..and i feel bad that they didnt erect a statue for that event ,becaus if they did i would not want to see it dismanteled. like the statue they should have erected for the two indians that killed tom quick sr.but as the story gos none of the tribesmen would ever reveal who the two indians were that cut off his fathers head ,cut the scalp off and kicked the head around in the snow while his famly watched .i could go on about small pox and other realy smart things that indians did but were talking a fiew hundred years ago..you need to cut them all some slack and except history as it happened and not try to alter it becaus it didnt turn out like you may have wanted it to.

That's right frank, let the legend continue on. It was long ago and it's over. Unfortunately, people who aren't part of the county's roots want to change all that. Without the Tom Quick Inn and the monument, the legend with the name.

That is "the legend dies with the name".

I just got a postcard in the mailtoday (10/25/07) offering the Tom Quick Inn for sale for 1.4 million dollars! Has it been repaired....or is it still unsafe and dangerous?

many fine memories ... the beautiful LaPasta family, Joe Splendora, Doctors Earl & Jayde Clarkson, Dr. Jay Kaufman, Dr. Juliet Angel, too many fine people to remember names and mention. Thank God for those times ... TQI, was a class operation ... the old FreeBird Inn

The Tom Quick Inn is closed down because the town wanted to get rid of the vagrants who lived there when Abe Wohl owned the place. The way they accomplished that was to deem the building as unsafe. So, they sent in the building inspector and determined that it is unsafe because it doesn't have a fire sprinkler. Funny how the Dimmick Inn doesn't have a fire sprinkler and they didn't close that.
As soon as the town lets up on the current owner, they can re-open.

I think there's more to it than that. Like back taxes. I've been in there; it's been wrecked, too.

Big Lance wrote:

I think there's more to it than that. Like back taxes. I've been in there; it's been wrecked, too.

That's the damage done by the vagrants. It is all cosmetic. There's nothing unsafe at all. I know the caretaker.

Well then, the caretaker ought to get a lesson in electrical work. You should have seen the extension cords running all over the place. While he's at it, he can learn about building codes!

Extension cords? Well thats a good reason to condem a building. How about just disconnecting the cords instead.

That restaurant used to bring tourists to town, not to mention the peopole that it employed. It's hard to see how this is helping Milford.

Those buildings are there longer then the building codes.

Might as well condemn every building in Milford, since there is not a single building over 10 years old that is up to current building codes. Beenthere, your property could be next you know.

Well charles, if you'd quit talking out of your ass and listen, I've been in the TQ, right before it was condemned as a matter of fact. The way the slumlord rented the place out, it was a fire hazard. Yes, extension cords used as they were are fire hazards. The place has been wrecked. Now if one would pay the back taxes on it and fix it up; it would be a nice place again. It just seems that anyone that owns it doesn't want to pay the taxes on it.