“At the Eagle Tavern in Cynthiana, in 1795, the tavern rates were: For a dinner, one shilling and threepence; a breakfast and supper, each one shilling; for a bed each night, sixpence; lodging in clean sheets, sixpence; for whisky by the half-pint, eightpence; for stableage and hay for one horse for twenty-four hours, one shilling; for pasturage for one horse twenty-four hours, one shilling and eightpence; for corn and oats by the quart, tuppence.”
Excerpt From: Coulter, E. Merton (Ellis Merton), 1890-. “History of Kentucky.”