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Oldest operating hotel in Austin Texas: Driskill Hotel 6 hours ago Land was purchased to build the Driskill Hotel in 1884 for the $7500 and then opened in 1886. The hotel opened with 60 rooms including 12 corner rooms with a rare feature in hotels of the region at the time – attached baths. The building was designed for separate entrances for men and women – nothing unusual then. The Driskill was conceived and built by Col. Jesse Driskill, a cattleman who spent his fortune constructing “the finest hotel south of St. Louis”. He was flush with cash from his service to the Confederate Army to which he supplied beef throughout the Civil War. In 1884, Driscoll purchased land in downtown Austin for $7500 and announced plans for a new hotel. Today, the Driskill remains one of the premier hotels in Austin, featuring lavish bridal suites, two restaurants, and a grand ballroom. ....
Boone Tavern Hotel in Kentucky: Hotel History 1855 3 weeks ago Boone Tavern Hotel is owned by Berea College – first college in the southern US to be coeducational and racially integrated. Muhammed Ali’s father, Marcellus Clay, named his son for the White Kentucky anti-slavery crusader, Cassius Marcellus Clay, one Berea College’s founders. In 1904, the Kentucky state legislature passed the “Day Law” prohibiting the education of Black and White students together. The Boone Tavern Hotel is owned by Berea College and operated with student workers from the College Labor Program. Students earn money for books, room and board but pay no tuition (valued at $25,500 per year), thanks to the generosity of donors who support Berea College’s mission of providing a free high quality education for students primarily from Appalachia who have high academic potential and limited financial resources. ....
Fisher Island Hotel History Once a one-family island home of the Vanderbilts, and later several other millionaires, Fisher Island off South Florida, was sold for development in the 1960s. A black construction laborer, Dana Albert Dorsey, who worked as a carpenter for Florida’s East Coast Railroad recognized the need to provide housing for black workers. With rental houses as it’s foundation, this grew into the first black-owned hotel in Florida – the Dorsey Hotel in Overtown. Fisher Island is in Miami-Dade County, Florida, located on a barrier island of the same name. As of 2015, Fisher Island had the highest per capita income of any place in the United States. The CDP had only 218 households and a total population of 467. ....