Reborn 1812 Delaware River Tavern
2206 River Road, Upper Black Eddy, PA 18972
Age
All Ages
Cost
$$$
American fare with bar service. Reservations recommended.
Access
Limited Access
Historic riverside structure
Equipment
Photos OK
Est. 1812 · 19th-Century Delaware Canal Era Tavern · Pennsylvania Palisades Riverfront · 200 Years of Continuous Hospitality
The riverside parcel at 2206 River Road sits on a sharp bend of the Delaware River, tucked into the foot of a mountainside locals call the Pennsylvania Palisades. River Road itself was a Native American path long before European settlement and remained a working travel corridor through the 18th and 19th centuries; the 1820s construction of the Delaware Canal added canal traffic to the road's already heavy mix.
A tavern has operated on this parcel since approximately 1812, cycling through several names: the Rising Sun, the Merchant House, the Narrowsville Hotel, and — for the last roughly eighty years before the 2015 fire — the Indian Rock Inn. Anne Royall, the early American travel writer, almost certainly passed by during her 1828 sweep of regional inns. Local historian Tom Schweder has documented much of the property's name sequence.
In 2015 a serious fire ripped through the Indian Rock Inn, destroying the structure. New owners James Vipond, Tamara Vipond, and Anthony Capone completed a year of renovations and reopened the rebuilt building in April 2016 under the new name The Narrows. The current restaurant occupies the same footprint and continues the parcel's two-century run as a Delaware River hospitality stop.
Sources
The body of folklore tied to this parcel comes almost entirely from the Indian Rock Inn era, before the 2015 fire. Over many decades, guests and staff described faucets that turned on and off without a hand on them, doorknobs that shook in rooms with no one inside, strange knocking sounds in walls and along corridors, and occasional shadow figures or apparitions. Some accounts reference the upper-floor bedrooms and quieter early-evening service hours.
A secondary, looser thread of regional folklore connects the inn to actor housing for a former nearby haunted-hayride attraction. The hayride property was sold and partially redeveloped, and that connection has faded from current accounts.
The Narrows, the rebuilt restaurant currently operating on the parcel, has not collected an equivalent body of folklore. With the original interior structure destroyed and replaced, much of the physical context for the older accounts no longer exists; the folklore now lives chiefly in regional ghost compendiums and the building's own history as the Indian Rock Inn.
American cuisine in a riverside dining room rebuilt after a 2015 fire that destroyed the original Indian Rock Inn. The restaurant retains the parcel's two-century history of hospitality on the Delaware River along the Pennsylvania Palisades.
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