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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 BY A. F. CADY
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 PLANTERS’ HOTEL REMODELED
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
1863
02 26 SALE OF THE PLANTER’S HOTEL
Last week Mr. William H. Clark sold the Planter’s
Hotel, in this city, now kept by Mr. Nathan Pratt, to Mr. E. R. Robinson, for
the sum of $4,000, the purchase money of which was paid down. This is the largest sale of real estate
recently made here. The buyer is a
gentleman of means and will take possession on the 1st of next April. We understand he intends to thoroughly
overhaul, enlarge, repair and refurnish the house, making it a first class
hotel, and conduct it himself. This will
be a decided benefit to the city, bringing here, as it does, a gentleman of
enterprise and capital, whose prosperity will be identified with that of the
community and who will have an interest in opening and keeping a public house
that will answer the wants of a growing city.
We have good hotels here now – hotels both commodious and popular, such
as in some respects are fully equal to the best in the country, but none so
large as may be found in many much smaller places. An improvement in this particular has long
been needed here. WD
03 26 REMODELING OF PLANTER’S
Mr.
Robinson, the new proprietor of the Planter’s Hotel, is now engaged in
overhauling the whole building. He will
raise it about five feet, put on a new addition on the east end, and give it an
altogether new and better appearance, besides increasing considerably his means
of accommodating the traveling public.
The changes he is making will greatly improve the corner on which the
building stands. That property hereafter
will be much more valuable and we hope he will find the investment of the money
he is making profitable. WD
1869
FIRE AT THE
PLANTERS HOTEL
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
History of Watertown,
Wisconsin