It's All About Saloonkeepers

Reader, did you know that a part of Hobart is named after Claus Ziegler, the long-ago Ainsworth saloonkeeper? It's true: Ziegler's Addition to Hobart.


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This map, dated 1944, shows Ziegler's Addition lying west of State Road 51 and south of 39th (Rand St.). Image courtesy of the Hobart Historical Society.

I mention this because the "Hobart Real Estate Transfers" column in the Gazette of November 9, 1917, contained this cryptic message: "Lts. 23, 24, 25, B. 3.; lts. 30, 31, 32, B.3, C. Ziegler's add. Pt. S½ NE 18-35-7. William Wollenberg and wife to Herman Suhr, $6,000."

So apparently the current Ainsworth saloonkeeper owned some lots in the Former Ainsworth Saloonkeeper's Addition to Hobart. And now he was selling them. Why should anyone care? I don't know. I suppose because Prohibition is looming, I'm just getting all sentimental about Ainsworth saloonkeepers.

Also — if I'm interpreting that telegraphic notation correctly — I think that "Pt. S½ NE 18-35-7" might be the land the Ainsworth saloon is sitting on. Hmmm….