How do you get into Crow’s Hat?
We have not confirmed it. Crow’s Hat 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: Corpse Reviver No. 2, White Lady, and Twentieth Century are all drinks of this era, and each links to its origin and its build.
The building and the district
Documented — Crow’s Hat stands inside the Lancaster Commercial Historic District, a historic district listed on the National Register of Historic Places under reference number 84001461. A district listing covers a group of properties rather than a single address, so the federal record establishes the age and character of the streetscape around this venue rather than of its own walls.
National Register reference 84001461 · NPS nomination document
Where Crow’s Hat sits
Crow’s Hat is in Lancaster, Kentucky, in Garrard County, in the Deep South of the United States.
This is currently the only verified hidden bar our directory lists in Lancaster. If you know another, tell us.
Kentucky holds 20 listed venues in this directory. See them all on our Kentucky speakeasy guide.
Prohibition in Kentucky
Kentucky brought in its own statewide prohibition in 1920, the same year the Eighteenth Amendment came into force nationally on 17 January 1920. State and federal law arrived together here, and the Volstead Act defined an intoxicating beverage as anything above one half of one per cent alcohol.
More on the period in our history of Prohibition in Kentucky.
What the newspapers recorded in Kentucky
Searching the Library of Congress run of Kentucky newspapers for speakeasy, blind pig and bootlegger across 1920 to 1933 returns dated pages anyone can open. These are from Kentucky:
- The public ledger, July 13, 1920 — read the page at the Library of Congress
- The sun, February 3, 1921 — read the page at the Library of Congress
- Mountain advocate, August 6, 1920 — read the page at the Library of Congress
- The sun, July 7, 1921 — read the page at the Library of Congress
Planning a visit
You can reach Crow’s Hat on Facebook.
The address is 101 Danville St, Lancaster, KY 40444. Open in Google Maps.
What we have confirmed
For Crow’s Hat we hold street address, social accounts, and a listed-building record. We do not yet hold telephone number, official website, opening hours, a published drinks list, or an online booking link.
It is in the directory because the description in the source data describes it as a speakeasy.
Overture Maps carries this venue; OpenStreetMap has no matching record.
The source data classifies the premises as a bar.