BLACK BASS HOTEL
Hotel — 3774 River Road, Lumberville, Bucks County, Pennsylvania
Status: Operating · Access: Open to public · est. 1745
Dossier: https://haunthunt.com/place/black-bass-hotel-lumberville-pennsylvania/

Hotel research record.

A hotel in Lumberville, Pennsylvania, built in 1745, Black Bass Hotel is filed here for what the record attaches to it. Hotel research record. Its signature presence is Hans — the figure the file’s accounts keep returning to. The dossier holds 1 reported claim, 1 legend and 1 documented fact, with the verified spine filed separately from the lore. It still takes guests.

The Black Bass is the river tavern — the 1740s inn on the Delaware, the canal workers' bar where Old Hans was stabbed. The names changed — Wall's Tavern to the Lumberville Hotel to the Black Bass, the fishing that gave the final name. The murder is the legend — the canal worker's knife, the barstool that stays, the bloodstain that's reported.
The canal was the context — the 1830s Delaware Division, the immigrant workers who built it, the brawls that ended in the tavern. The restoration is the survival — the 2009 renovation, the suites with the river views, the ghosts that are part of the package. The Black Bass is the Bucks County haunt — the oldest inn with the oldest ghost, the canal bar where the blood appears.
The file keeps the Black Bass: the 1740s origin, the canal era, the Hans murder, and the haunted reputation.
The Black Bass is the archive's Bucks-County file — the inn with the stabbed innkeeper.

WHY THIS FILE MATTERS
The Black Bass is the archive's Bucks-County file — the haunted inn on the Delaware.
A tavern keeps its ghost — the file's suggestion being that the Black Bass's hold is the barstool: the spot where Hans died, the canal workers' history, and the orbs the investigators catch.

FILED CLAIMS — 1 on record, reported not verified
· [Documented legend] apparition: Operator lore describes Hans at the Canal Bar and a lavender-associated woman in white. The hotel keeps the account on its own record — the sort of haunting a building earns one guest at a time. 'History; Spirits & Lore' preserves the telling; the record keeps it filed where it belongs, as lore. The figure remains the site's most-repeated sighting.
  source: History; Spirits & Lore (https://www.blackbasshotel.com/history/)

HISTORY — 1 documented facts
· Eighteenth-century inn restored following its 2008 acquisition by the Thompson family. Black Bass Hotel's history is documented rather than told — this entry is part of that spine. It's verified history: the dossier's load-bearing detail. The detail is preserved in 'History; Spirits & Lore'. The record keeps it — history, not lore.

SOURCES — 2 cited
· History; Spirits & Lore — Black Bass Hotel
  https://www.blackbasshotel.com/history/
· Black Bass Hotel — Black Bass Hotel
  https://www.blackbasshotel.com/

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