Get a Room! Historic Western Hotels and Saloons Recall the Golden Era of the West
Hays House Council :: Grove, Kansas
Seth Hays, Daniel Boone’s grandson, was the first white settler in Council Grove in 1847. In 1857 Hays built a two-story wood-frame building. The site served as a trading post, restaurant, hotel, courthouse, post office, printing office, meeting and social hall, and offered weary traders journeying between New Mexico and Missouri supplies, meals and rooms. Jesse James and General George Armstrong Custer were a few famous patrons of the Hays House.
Today the Hays House Tavern and Restaurant is famous for being the oldest continuously operated restaurant west of the Mississippi. Inside, diners can find historical artifacts, artwork, arrowheads and Native American relics. The business has had many owners and survived a kitchen fire in its 150-plus years. A group of 25 local residents pooled their money together to buy the business after the fire. The Flint Hills Investors reopened Hays House to the public in May 2012.
112 West Main Street, Council Grove, KS 66846 • 620-767-5911 • HaysHouse.com
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