Elephant Hotel
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| Birthplace of the American Circus Statue of Old Bet, first circus elephant, stands outside the Elephant Hotel, now the Town Hall. Hackoliah Bailey bought Old Bet between 1805 & 1810 and exhibited for gain in the first traveling menagerie in America, ancestor of today's Big Top. The Hotel was completed in 1825 and Statue mounted in 1827 - two grateful monuments of appreciation from Mr. Bailey to Old Bet. There is a circus museum inside the Hotel |
