WigWam Village #2 ( Cave City )

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The Wigwam Village Inn #2 began as a dream of Frank A. Redford in the early 1900s. Frank's inspirations in this dream were a popular ice cream shop shaped like an upside down cone and authentic teepees he'd seen on a Sioux reservation in South Dakota. His dream became reality in 1935 when construction on Wigwam Village #1 was completed in Horse Cave, Kentucky. Realizing he'd hit upon a popular idea, Frank patented the design with the US patent office in 1936. Wigwam Village Inn #2 was completed in 1937 in Cave City, and five more were built over time in Alabama, Florida, New Orleans, California, and Arizona. From the beginning, the Wigwam Villages were gathering places with an atmosphere of old-time neighborliness. The community area at the center of the circle of wigwams seemed to invite people to come and talk.