Historic Columbus Taverns: The Capital City's Most Storied Saloons

One of the first buildings in Central Ohio in the 1790s was a tavern and 200 years later—Columbus as a foodie town shows renewed interest in discovering its historic liquid assets. Once historic taverns in frontier Columbus featured live bears chained to giant wheels, pumping water for travelers in need of a shower and giving new meaning to the term watering hole. Existing historic taverns in Columbus span from 1830s through the 1930s and still have little-known histories, stories, scandals...