Boone Tavern Hotel in Kentucky: Hotel History 1855
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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.
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Hotel History: Boone Tavern Hotel (63 rooms). Built on the old Dixie Highway and named after Kentucky explorer Daniel Boone, the historic Boone Tavern Hotel is located on College Square in Berea, Kentucky.
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Henry Morrison Flagler was a visionary, but even he probably could not have imagined what The Breakers, now a premier resort known worldwide, would become when he founded it 125 years ago.
Flagler, who made his fortune as a partner in the Standard Oil company and as a developer and railroad pioneer, opened the Palm Beach Inn on Jan. 16, 1896. It was the only oceanfront hotel south of Daytona Beach and attracted the famous people of its day including the Astors, Rockefellers, Carnegies and Vanderbilts.
Regular guests from his other nearby hotel, the 1,100-room Royal Poinciana, asked for rooms “down by the breakers.” When Flagler doubled the size of the inn for the 1901 season, he renamed the oceanfront resort The Breakers.
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.