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Kahn Saloon

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123 Austin St., Jefferson, TX, USA

Latitude & Longitude: 32° 45' 24.22836", -94° 20' 39.62518000008"
 
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     Built during the early 1860s, this structure served as a boarding house and as a mercantile before opening as the Kahn Saloon about 1900. Temperance movement leader Carrie Nation was denied entrance here during one of her campaigns through Texas. Jefferson native Marion Try Slaughter launched his career as country music singer Vernon Dalhart at the Kahn Saloon. The popular gathering place was closed after local prohibitionists won a 1907 election. Since that time, the building has been used for a variety of purposes, including a newspaper office, lodge building, furniture store, and funeral home.

This page last updated: 7/15/2008

Kahn Saloon Historical Marker Location Map, Jefferson, Texas