1039 Bells Tavern

Category: Markers

Marker reads, Erected by William Bell, 1830. Stage stop for his lines that brought visitors to Mammoth Cave when first promoted. Famed in United States and Europe for elite patrons, cuisine and magic peach and honey brandy for Joy before the journeys end, until it burned 1860. Civil War doomed completion of new tavern begun by grandson, William. F. Bell, and his stepfather, George M. Proctor.