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Benham, Kentucky
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The Benham Schoolhouse Inn occupies a school built in 1926 by Wisconsin Steel, later International Harvester, for the children of the Benham coal camp. The last high school class graduated in 1961, and the building served as an elementary school until 1992 before it was converted into an inn that opened in 1994. Guest rooms are in the old classrooms, the lockers are still painted dark green, and each room number stands for a graduating class. Harlan County's tourism trail includes the inn on its haunted Harlan County tour, and visitors and staff tell of footsteps, voices and lights in the halls. These accounts are anecdotal, with no named witness or investigation behind them. The inn is open to overnight guests and has a restaurant, the Dinner Bucket.
Working inn open to overnight guests; rooms are in the old classrooms. The Dinner Bucket restaurant is on site, and the inn's phone number and website list current hours and rates.
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