{"id":2860,"slug":"palace-saloon-fernandina-beach-florida","story":[{"heading":null,"paragraphs":["Palace is the '03 — the 'oldest' that's the Florida, the 'Shipcaptain's' that's the bar. The 'Hirth' is the founder — the 'haberdashery' that's the before, the 'Anheuser-Busch' that's the designed. The 'last to close' is the Prohibition — the '$60,000' that's the night, the 'ice cream' that's the after.","The 'Carnegies' is the clientele — the 'Rockefellers' that's the elite, the 'Coca-Cola' that's the first hard liquor. The '1999' is the fire — the 'survived' that's the bar, the 'Pirate's Punch' that's the famous. Palace is the continuous — the '113 years' that's the still, the 'ghost' that's the alleged.","The file keeps Palace: the 1903 bar, the Prohibition last call, the Carnegies, and the 1999 fire.","Palace Saloon is the archive's Florida file — the oldest bar."]},{"heading":"Why this file matters","paragraphs":["Palace Saloon is the archive's Florida file — the shipcaptain's bar.","A saloon keeps its last call — the file's suggestion being that Palace's hold is the survived: the 'Prohibition' that's the midnight, the 'Carnegies' that's the elite, and the '1999 fire' that's the still open."]}],"name":"Palace Saloon","aliases":[],"type":"SITE","type_label":"Site","cats":["LOCAL_FOLKLORE","HAUNTED_PLACE","HISTORIC_BUILDING"],"groups":["hauntings","legends"],"desc":"Florida’s oldest bar—1903, and the ship captains still drink.","full_desc":"Palace Saloon is a site in Fernandina Beach, Florida. Florida’s oldest bar—1903, and the ship captains still drink. The presence its accounts keep returning to is the one they call the captains. The dossier holds 2 reported claims, 1 legend, 1 documented fact and 1 named or described presence — documented record and retelling kept side by side. The site is open to visitors.","address":null,"city":"Fernandina Beach","county":null,"state":"Florida","postal":null,"region":"South","lat":30.657916,"lon":-81.450001,"coord_kind":"CITY","status":"ACTIVE","access":"PUBLIC","access_notes":null,"ownership":null,"website":null,"phone":null,"year_built":null,"year_opened":null,"year_closed":null,"year_demolished":null,"designation":null,"current_use":"Historic site","research_notes":"FL batch; VERIFY task auto-queued.","stage":"SOURCE_RESEARCH","quality":{"level":"MEDIUM","score":59.4,"dims":{"location_confidence":0.75,"identity_confidence":0.65,"historical_confidence":0.8,"source_quality":0.3999999999999999,"paranormal_claim_provenance":0.8,"coordinate_confidence":0,"current_access_confidence":0.7,"freshness":0.65}},"claims":[{"id":2570,"type":"NAMED_GHOST_LEGEND","description":"The captains are reportedly seen at the bar. The site in Fernandina Beach, Florida gives the account a documented setting: real place, real history, unresolved reports. The account has a collector's pedigree — written down as legend, which is the most honest status it can hold. The account appears in 'Palace Saloon'. The name travels further than the proof; the sightings keep renewing the lease.","evidence":"DOCUMENTED_LEGEND","evidence_label":"Documented legend","entity":"The captains","where":null,"first_report":null,"approx_date":null,"confidence":0.8,"conflict_notes":null,"source":{"name":"Palace Saloon","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palace_Saloon","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4},"conflicting_source":null,"variants":[]},{"id":2571,"type":"APPARITION","description":"Reported figures in the saloon. Palace Saloon in Fernandina Beach, Florida carries the report the way old places do — as part of its identity. The claim comes from paranormal investigation work: suggestive results, no accepted proof. Sources including 'Palace Saloon' keep the claim in circulation. The apparition is the file's anchor — every other report orbits it.","evidence":"PARANORMAL_INVESTIGATION_CLAIM","evidence_label":"Investigation claim","entity":null,"where":null,"first_report":null,"approx_date":null,"confidence":0.8,"conflict_notes":null,"source":{"name":"Palace Saloon","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palace_Saloon","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4},"conflicting_source":null,"variants":[]}],"history":[{"description":"Opened 1903; the oldest bar in Florida. Palace Saloon's past is on record — the entry belongs to the verified layer beneath whatever lore attaches. The record holds it as fact — documented, not retold. The record appears in 'Palace Saloon'. It anchors the timeline the rest of the file hangs from. The telling survives; the proof stays folklore.","evidence":"HISTORICALLY_VERIFIED","date_start":"1903","date_end":null,"confidence":null,"source":{"name":"Palace Saloon","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palace_Saloon","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4}}],"legends":[{"name":null,"summary":"The captains are reportedly seen at the bar. The site in Fernandina Beach, Florida gives the account a documented setting: real place, real history, unresolved reports. The account has a collector's pedigree — written down as legend, which is the most honest status it can hold. Legends accrue where records go silent; this one filled the gap and stayed.","earliest":null,"evidence":"DOCUMENTED_LEGEND","source":{"name":"Palace Saloon","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palace_Saloon","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4}}],"entities":[{"name":"The captains","claimed_identity":"The captains","verified":null,"summary":"The captains are reportedly seen at the bar. Palace Saloon's file is thin on proof and long on persistence — the standard profile of American place-lore. The name travels further than the proof; the sightings keep renewing the lease. The claim holds its place in the ledger. It remains the site's standing claim.","behavior":"The captains are reportedly seen at the bar.","area":null,"first_ref":null,"source":{"name":"Palace Saloon","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palace_Saloon","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4}}],"events":[],"investigations":[],"encounters":[],"media":[],"persons":[],"visitor":{"tour_availability":"Verify before visiting","notes":"Site access varies; verify before visiting.","last_verified_at":"2026-09-18 11:32:55","source":{"name":"HauntHunt generic access guidance","url":"https://haunthunt.com/about#access-guidance","publisher":"HauntHunt editorial","type":"DIRECTORY","authority":2}},"sources":[{"name":"Palace Saloon","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palace_Saloon","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4}],"conflicts":[],"wiki":null,"counts":{"claims":2,"history":1,"legends":1,"entities":1,"sources":1}}