bells Tavern! Very old Tavern Site... Too Bad its a no go..=(

[olekyground]

I was searching around an area about 20 miles out fo town. I was hoping to fidn a new good site to detect in but unfortunately did not. However I did see this from the road and turned around. I was excited for a bit but then I seen it was historic...Oh well its still a really cool place. Its called Bells Tavern. It was built by a man named William Bell in 1830. It served as a stagecoach stop that brought visitors to Mammoth Cave when first open. The inn and tavern was famous in the United States and Europe for elite patrons, cuisine and a special drink of peach and honey brandy for “Joy before the journey’s end. The tavern burned in 1860 and reconstruction by Bell’s grandson, William F. Bell and stepfather, George M. Proctor, was halted due to the Civil War. Thanks for looking!!

 

[ANTIQUARIAN]

Great looking pictures and background story olekyground. If I didn't know better, I'd swear
I was looking at a ruin somewhere in the English countryside.
Too bad you couldn't put the detector on the ground, bet there's quite a bit to be found too.

 

[Woodland Detectors]

Listen,
That's a dot on map already discovered.
Find out what's between those dots and you'll get some relics.....I promise

 

[birdman]

I have been there a couple of times.Really neat old place. My parrents live close to Glasgow.

 

[Brian(upstateNY-Central Fla.)]

Cool looking place

 

[Shortstack]

Listen,
That's a dot on map already discovered.
Find out what's between those dots and you'll get some relics.....I promise

Absolutely. You know where the tavern is located. Now, verify the route of the original roadway. Find out where that road crossed the creeks and rivers (bridges and ferries). Were any of those stagecoaches robbed nearby?? How far out from the ruins does the PROTECTED property go? Can you get permission from current owners of surrounding properties to detect?? The trash pit or trash site could easily be OUTSIDE of the protected site. After all, the tavern wouldn't want their trash and junk piled up right outside of their business building. They'd carry it off a little piece to get it out of sight. If there is a creek nearby, there's a good chance they'd throw their trash over the creek bank.

You see. There are still great possibilities with this site. Use your common sense and expand a little.
Good luck and good hunting.

 

[caveman2]

I know the guy that takes care of the old mentz hotel next door. I'll get in touch with him and see if we can hunt http://www.louisvilleparanormalinvestigations.com/Mentz-Hotel-Park-City-Ky.html

 

[Shortstack]

WOW, Caveman. Nice link. Now, I wonder how often and how many drunks WALKED to and from the tavern to the hotel, HUUUUMMMMM?

 

[Nate in Ga]

stage coach stops are usually awesome for coins find the next one down the line.

 

[Deepdiger60]

I can just imagine what,s in the ground there the Reale and later the Morgan silver dollar was the main means of payment in a salon ,people back then did not take a cab to the tavern they waked or rode a horse check all around the area you can detect look for old horse trails .Good luck Dd60

 

[bergie]

NIGHT VISION GOGGLES (kidding, kidding...)

 

[olepossum]

hunt the area not taped off people didnt stay next to the tavern all the time i used to stray away to water the grass once in a while

 

[artzstuff1]

I would get in touch with the grounds keeper and see if he could not get you on the site to do a little swinging,

You never know,,,but my guess would be it had the hell swung out of it way back when!!!

very cool site for sure!!!


art

 

[Diggin-N-Dumps]

So are these "Historic Sites" Owned by the state?..or does it stay in the Town? does anyone one know how that works, or does it matter what state your in?

 

[nova treasure]

I have detected in Park City years ago at a tavern and hotel. I am thinking this is the same place, but it was privately owned at the time. I plan on making a trip to Mammoth cave soon and I will make a couple of calls and see if I can help you out with the area.

We use to have 8mm video of this area with alot of interesting sites there, but the videos were detroyed in a basement flood unfortunatly.

Nova Treasure