Louis G. Hirth
(1866-1936)

Died aged c. 70

Louis G. Hirth was born in Germany in 1866 and immigrated to America at the age of 16. In 1895 he began a retail liquor business in Fernandina. In 1901, Hirth purchased a building on the corner of Centre and 2nd Streets and opened the Palace Saloon, which became Florida’s longest continuously operating saloon. The Palace became a fashionable meeting place for sea captains, the Carnegies and other wealthy families from Cumberland Island, Georgia. Louis Hirth died in 1936.

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