This Federal house, set side elevation to the road, with some Greek Revival alterations and an ample Victorian barn, is the most substantial house in town. It appears on a 1790 map as Captain Inman's Inn. Although Simon Sweet was its best-known owner locally, the house is famous in Rhode Island history as a headquarters for state militia men during the so-called Dorr Rebellion, or “Dorr War,” which came to a climax in the Battle of Acote's Hill, now a cemetery across the pike. There the episode is marked by a bronze-tableted boulder within sight of the highway. Thomas W. Dorr, a wealthy Providence lawyer who identified with populist causes, beginning in 1841 led a paramilitary movement for more liberal suffrage. In 1842 the Dorrites took possession of, Chepachet where several converging forces were to have rendezvoused. State militia dispatched from Providence easily won a “war” in which the defenders had effectively disbanded before the engagement. The movement faded away, and its leader was briefly imprisoned and financially ruined; but many Dorrite demands were eventually realized.