There’s a sign inside The Stanhope House in Sussex County that reads “Since the beginning of man, the hours between dusk and dawn have belonged to the tellers of tales and the makers of music,” Stanhope House c. 1790. It had been a private home, a stagecoach stop, a general store, post office, tavern, rooming house and hotel but it took until the 1970s for it to become “The Last American Roadhouse,” as they billed themselves.