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The Inn
Between Restaurant was opened in May 1972.
Before that time the
“Munro Home”, as it was originally known, had
changed hands at least five times when it was taken
over by the present owners.
This site was the manor house
of the Munro family whose ancestry dates back to
Scotland.
The house was the hub
of all activities during the day and yet offered a
restful haven in the evening after a hard day’s work
in the fields.
Thomas
Hill Munro built his home in 1880 shortly after his
marriage to Nellie Brown in 1875.
The land on which the
house was built was part of a farm owned by his
father David Allen Munro.
The Munro family is
recognized as having a large role in the history of
Onondaga
County
and in particular the Elbridge-Camillus area.
In 1799, the same year that
the Town of
Camillus
was formed, Squire Munro moved
here from Cheshire,
Mass.
to work his newly acquired farm land.
It stretched for 300
acres over rolling hills which were densely
populated with trees.
Squire Munro, a
soldier in the revolutionary War, was one of four
sons of John Munro.
Another of the brothers
arriving at that time was the grandfather of the
fifth President of the
United States,
James Munro, who was in office from 1816 to 1824.
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