Following the death of her husband William in 1802, the widow Dale, in 1807, came to Clearfield county. For a few days she stopped at Clearfield. She then located in Pike township, on the old State Road, and built a stone hotel, which at that time was the finest building in Clearfield county. It was located at the top of Anderson Creek Hill, on lands now owned by Charles Marshall. For more than a quarter of a century this was one of the most noted hotels on the road from Philadelphia to Franklin.

Teams hauling goods went in caravans, as many as fifty teams with their drivers stopped at this hotel in one night. Mrs. Dale, a few months after the building of this hotel, married an Englishman named John Wrigley, who had located at Clearfield. Several years after Mr. Wrigley died and his widow married Thompson Huey.