By Stephen Smoot Before Irish and German railway workers toiled to extend the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad through the mountains of Western Virginia, it was there. When Lieutenant General Jubal Early marched quickly from Moorefield with 5,000 Confederates and drove Union forces away from Fort Mulligan, it was already a more than two decade old business in the town nearby. The Hermitage Inn has seen the joys and pains, the rises and falls and rebirths, families returning for summer vacations...