Harriet Beecher Stowe ID: 5565 | This file appears in: Unionville Tavern Harriet Beecher Stowe visited Unionville Tavern in the 1840s. While there she heard the story of a captured runaway slave, Milton Clarke. Many think he was the inspiration for the character George Harris in Stowe's famous novel Uncle Tom's Cabin. Image Courtesy of The Ohio Memory Project. Download Original File "Harriet Beecher Stowe" appears in: Unionville Tavern