Eliot Ness Museum.

Eliot Ness Museum

Eliot Ness was the leader of a small group of Prohibition federal agents who fought Al Capone and organized crime in the 1930s (and inspired the cartoon character Dick Tracy). He then faded from memory until 1959, when the hit TV series The Untouchables made Eliot Ness a heroic household name. Unfortunately for Eliot, he had died two years earlier in Coudersport, broke and forgotten.

The Eliot Ness Museum does its best to keep Ness's memory alive, with a variety of old cars (including a bootleg booze-running truck), a bathtub gin display, and a photo-op jail cell.

The third Saturdays of every month are "Capone's Soup Kitchen" days, where visitors can eat soup served by an Al Capone gangster lookalike, just like the impoverished people of Chicago during the Great Depression.

Eliot Ness Museum

Address:: 201 N. Main St., Coudersport, PA
Directions:: Midtown. On the west side of PA-44/N. Main St., just north of its intersection with US-6/2nd St.
Hours:: By appt only. (Call to verify)
Phone:: 607-423-6902
Admission:: Adults $15.

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