[3] The tavern was built by two brothers as a stagecoach stop for the line they started in 1809 between Richmond and Lynchburg, Virginia.

The Generals arranged a meeting to be held in town at the McLean House so Lee could formally surrender his troops to Grant, effectively ending the American Civil War.

Approximately thirty thousand paroles for the Confederate soldiers were printed in the Clover Hill Tavern.

[5] At the time of General Lee's surrender to Union commander Grant in 1865 the Tavern and its associated outbuildings were owned by Wilson Hix.

Brigadier General George H. Sharpe, as head of the Bureau of Military Information and Assistant Provost Marshal, made the Clover Hill Tavern his headquarters starting on April 10, 1865.

Sharpe was designated by Grant to oversee the printing of parole passes which were issued to the Confederate veterans.

Research by historians of the Park reveal that perhaps the paroles were printed in the wooden dining room wing at the west end of the Tavern that no longer is there.

[5] A National Park Service marker at the front entrance of the Clover Hill Tavern reads:[6] Built in 1819, this was the first building in what would become the village of Appomattox Court House.

Here, on the evening of April 10, 1865, Union soldiers set up printing presses and started producing paroles for the surrendered Confederates.

The Federals printed more than 30,000 parole documents here.The Clover Hill Tavern with its guest house and slave quarters have special meaning in American history as designated by the National Park Service under their criteria by embodying the distinctive characteristics of a type, period, and method of construction in the mid nineteenth century.

[3] The Clover Hill Tavern is constructed of local brick laid in a Flemish bond.

A wood shingle gable roof with a box cornice covers the 3-story guest house structure.

[8] The Clover Hill Tavern slave quarters is a single-story frame cabin with an attic that was originally constructed in 1819.

The roof is square-butt wood shingles and finished with plain box cornices and rake boards.