How do you get into The Gavel Grill & Speakeasy?
We have not confirmed it. The Gavel Grill & Speakeasy is in the directory because it calls itself a speakeasy, and that is the whole of what we can stand behind about its door.
Drinks of the era
We have not seen this venue’s own list, so what follows is the period rather than the bar: Blood and Sand, Bobby Burns, and Rob Roy are all drinks of this era, and each links to its origin and its build.
Where The Gavel Grill & Speakeasy sits
The Gavel Grill & Speakeasy is in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, in Rutherford County, in the Deep South of the United States.
Our directory currently lists two speakeasies and hidden bars in Murfreesboro — too few for a city guide of its own yet, so they sit on the Tennessee page until there are more.
Measured from the map pins, the closest of those to The Gavel Grill & Speakeasy are The Velvet Room Speakeasy, a few doors away.
Tennessee holds 24 listed venues in this directory. See them all on our Tennessee speakeasy guide.
Prohibition in Tennessee
Tennessee did not wait for the federal government. Statewide prohibition took effect here in 1909, eleven years before the Eighteenth Amendment came into force nationally on 17 January 1920. By the time the Volstead Act was being enforced across the country, Tennessee already had an established illegal trade and the habits that went with it.
More on the period in our history of Prohibition in Tennessee.
What the newspapers recorded in Tennessee
Searching the Library of Congress run of Tennessee newspapers for speakeasy, blind pig and bootlegger across 1920 to 1933 returns dated pages anyone can open. These are from Tennessee:
- The Chattanooga news, February 18, 1920 — read the page at the Library of Congress
- The Fayette falcon, February 20, 1920 — read the page at the Library of Congress
- The Chattanooga news, March 30, 1920 — read the page at the Library of Congress
- The Chattanooga news, March 30, 1920 — read the page at the Library of Congress
Planning a visit
You can reach The Gavel Grill & Speakeasy through its own website.
The address is 109 N Maple St, Murfreesboro, TN 37130-3506. Open in Google Maps.
What we have confirmed
For The Gavel Grill & Speakeasy we hold street address and official website. We do not yet hold telephone number, social accounts, opening hours, a published drinks list, an online booking link, or a listed-building record.
It is in the directory because its own name calls it a speakeasy.
Overture Maps carries this venue; OpenStreetMap has no matching record.
The source data classifies the premises as a restaurant.