"When the New-York-native crime boss was in his home base of Chicago, Capone was a well-known regular at the Green Mill Cocktail Lounge. Elsewhere across the U.S., Capone was also a patron of The Ohio Club (Arkansas' oldest bar), where a life-sized statue of the mobster still sits on a bench just outside the restaurant's doors. But, just east of Capone's Illinois lies Indiana - and during his travels, he was pulling up a barstool at the Knickerbocker Saloon."
"The oldest restaurant in Indiana once served Abraham Lincoln. In similar fashion, the Knickerbocker Saloon has been serving the Lafayette community for nearly 200 years, making it the oldest bar in the state of Indiana . Knickerbocker received the first liquor license in the state ("the first place to allow patrons to legally drink in Hoosier territory," as the Knickerbocker Saloon's official website puts it) back in 1835, when the joint was still known as the Gault House Tavern."
Al Capone visited the Knickerbocker Saloon in Lafayette during his travels, joining patrons at the historic bar. The Knickerbocker has served the Lafayette community for nearly 200 years and received Indiana's first liquor license in 1835 when it was the Gault House Tavern. The current name arrived in 1874 after the establishment operated briefly as the "Cherry Wood Bar" in the 1850s and '60s. Famous patrons have included Mark Twain, Neil Armstrong, John Purdue, President Ulysses S. Grant, and Al Capone. The saloon cemented its community role through a longstanding focus on music, evolving into a local mainstay.
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