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Planter’s Hotel
101 E Main
Site of first saloon / tavern in city
1843
The Planters was the second hotel to open in Watertown and was built in
1843.
1847
06 30 "Mine host" of the Planter’s served his boarders with
green peas on Sunday - the first of the season in this section Watertown Chronicle
1851c
Mr. Turner, proprietor, mentioned
1854
02 04 Planter’s Hotel property for
sale.
Watertown
Register
1857
1858
08 07 Cook is a capital fellow and
keeps a capital house WD
1859
02
03 Planters’ Hotel Remodeled
The Planters’ Hotel has recently been overhauled
from top to bottom and is now ready for the reception of visitors. It is under the management of its former
popular and experienced landlord, Mr. A. F. Cady, who takes not only great
pains in giving his old friends and customers a cordial welcome, but will spare
no care to make an agreeable and comfortable home for all new ones. We hope “Mine Host” will always have a house
full upon whom to bestow his attentions, for he knows how to fill those who
place themselves under his care. WD
02
10 Common Council
Resolved, That the Marshal be and he is hereby
directed to notify the occupant of the Planter’s Hotel to remove the sign and
post recently erected on the northwest corner of said premises, to remove the
same within 24 hours after notice shall be given him, and in case of refusal so
to do, the Marshal is hereby required to remove the same immediately
thereafter. WD
07 28 The
Planter’s Hotel—This is one of the oldest as well
as largest public houses in this city.
Our readers are aware that it has recently been fitted
up and refurnished by Mr. A. F. Cady, its present attentive and gentlemanly
landlord, and is now enjoying a good deal of public patronage. Travelers will always find the Planter’s an
agreeable place to stop while remaining in town and nothing wanting that can
contribute to their pleasure or comfort.
We are glad to observe the return of business and prosperity to a house
which now, as in former years, well deserves success. When we shall be placed, as we soon will be,
upon the most crowded line of travel in the state, we have no doubt that our
public spirited hotelkeepers will be ready to meet the increased wants and
demands of the people. WD
1860
05
31 N Pratt, landlord WD
1869
The Planters Hotel was located on the southeast corner of Main and S.
First St. and burned to the ground in 1869, at which time it was known as the
Robinson House. It was directly across
the street from the Rock River Hotel (later became the Exchange Hotel).
It is not the same as the Carlton .
2012 101 E Main location, compared to 1857.
Cross References:
1853, Impression of, stage house, artesian well
Basford
& Co's Brick Block, 1858, Mention of, next to Planter's Hotel
Basford
& Co's Brick Block, 1859, Mention of
