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Potts Inn to host Butterfield Day; new interpretive sign on enslaved residents to be unveiled
Summary
Kara Bowers, director and volunteer with the Potts Inn museum, told the Pope County Quorum Court the Potts Inn will hold its Butterfield Day celebration Sept. 20 with family activities and a new sign detailing research on enslaved people who lived at the site.
Kara Bowers, who identified herself as Potts Inn director and museum tour guide, asked the quorum court for continued support for the Potts Inn and said the site will host its Butterfield Day celebration on Saturday, Sept. 20 from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Bowers described family activities including a reenacted Butterfield Mail run, food trucks, vendors, carriage rides, student‑led tour segments between 10 a.m. and noon, and a sign unveiling that will present the results of ongoing research into people enslaved at the Potts Inn. She said the museum is collaborating with Jane Pittman of the Latimer tourist home to develop the interpretive sign and invited anyone with information to contact the museum. The court record notes local historical organization CARES authored a book about the area (referred to in the record as the history of “Potsdam”), and county justices thanked Bowers for the work preserving a local historic resource. No formal county appropriation for the Potts Inn was discussed on the record that evening; Bowers’ presentation was a request for continued support and public awareness.
