William Sholl built a 2-1/2-story stone building in 1804 with a front porch and two doorways, on North Franklin Street. It was called the Farmers and Drovers Hotel. Later it was called the Old Hotel. The shield on the building had two black crows painted on it. The story goes that pranksters and drunks would travel at all hours and would stop at the hotel and caw like crows to wake up the proprietor, thus the village became known as Kroppestaedel or
”Crows Town”. Elias Dries was the last person to hold a hotel license. Later the building was used as a shoemaker shop and a rehearsal spot for the Fleetwood Band. Two of the oldest cattle and horse dealers lived in Fleetwood. They were Henry Schlegel and Amos Rothermel. These men would drive the livestock east on foot. It would take 43 days to drive sheep east from Fairfax County, Ohio and 21 days to bring the horses over the 500-mile trek. The hotel was a place to auction off the livestock. It was finally torn down in 1932.