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Bailey Circus in United States
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Bailey Circus
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circus
Owner
1808:
Hachaliah Bailey
1823-:
Benjamin Brown
Place
Fairfax County, Virginia
Country
United States
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Mary Bailey
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Description
Bailey Circus, in Fairfax County, Virginia,
United States
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In 1808, while residing in Somers, New York,
Hachaliah Bailey
purchased an African elephant for $1,000 and named it "Old Bet." Old Bet appears to be one of the first elephants brought to the United States; she had previously been on exhibit in Boston in 1804, but Bailey found her for sale four years later in a New York City cattle market.
(An alternate version of the story relates that
Hachaliah Bailey
purchased Old Bet from a sea captain, possibly his brother, who had acquired the elephant for $20 in London prior to the War of 1812.)
Bailey originally planned to use Old Bet as a draught animal on his farm, but she attracted so much attention that he decided to found a travelling menagerie instead. He started out to show Old Bet with a wagon of hay, a horse to draw it, and an assistant. The admission fee for an entire family was either a coin or a 2-gallon jug of rum. In 1808,
Hachaliah Bailey
rented two-thirds of Old Bet to
Benjamin Lent
and Andrew Brown, who also had a right to display her.
On July 24, 1816, Old Bet was killed while on tour near Alfred, Maine by a farmer who thought it sinful for poor people to waste money on a traveling circus, and Bailey memorialized her in 1825 with a statue and the Elephant Hotel in Somers, New York.
As a memorial to his elephants
Hachaliah Bailey
built the Elephant Hotel, on a piece of land he had purchased from Thomas Leggett in 1807 for $1250.
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Koehl, Dan (2024). Bailey Circus, Elephant Encyclopedia. Available online at
https://www.elephant.se/location2.php?location_id=634
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Sources used for this article is among others:
Stuart Thayer, USA
Page 9, Elefanten in Zoo und Circus, Dokumentation 2 Nordamerika, 1997, by European Elephant Group: Haufellner, Schilfarth, Schweiger
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