Historical Marker

Grayson's Tavern

Historical marker location:

Danville, Kentucky

( lst & Walnut Sts., Danville)

Danville's first tavern, operated in this building before 1800 by Benjamin Grayson. Often within these walls the burning political issues of the day were discussed. The Danville Political Society, organized in 1786 and the first of its kind in the West, met and dined here at Grayson's Tavern to "plan the course of the empire" before blazing log fires.