The Swan Tavern

The Swan Tavern

The Swan Tavern is a reconstruction that stands on the original foundations.   One of the characteristics of colonial Yorktown was the large number of its inns and taverns. The Swan Tavern soon became the main tavern in ...

The Raleigh Tavern

During Public Times Virginia leaders often met at the Raleigh, Williamsburg's most popular inn. Here in 1769 a group of burgesses adopted the proposal of George Mason for a boycott of British goods. Five years later Burgesses again met in ...

The Lincoln Tavern

Hattie Howell Howard, born about ten miles from here in 1886, grew up hearing local lore about Abraham Lincoln. After her brother James opened the Nancy Lincoln Inn next to Abraham Lincoln Birthplace National Historical Park, Hattie looked for her ...

The Fox Tavern: A Colonial Landmark

Until the coming of the railroads in the 19th century, the Rappahannock River town of Port Royal was the commercial center of what is now Caroline County, Virginia. Like many ports, it was a raucous place and boasted a disproportionate ...

This tablet mark's the Site of Doolittle's Tavern

This tablet mark's the Site of Doolittle's Tavern, Headquarters of Gov. Meigs during the quartering of Gen. Hull's Army at Urbana in the War of 1812.

Marker is at the intersection of North Main Street (U.S. 68) and Miami Street (U.S. ...

The Old Parker Tavern - 1680

1630 - 1930

One-eighth of a mile to "the

simple home of an ordinary man,

not wealthy, not particularly

distinguished, but a type of the

God-fearing yeomanry .... as

Ephraim Parker left it, it

remains today an unchanged

relic in the ...

The Revolutionary Tavern

1630 - 1930

Built before 1747 and kept from 1758 to 1790 by Obadiah Sawtell, "the old landlord." He was a delegate to the Provincial Congress. Here the men gathered at the alarm on April 19, 1775.

Marker is on Massachusetts Route ...

The Golden Fleece Tavern

Birthplace of the First State

This was the site of the Golden Fleece Tavern, scene of some of the most important and dramatic events in Delaware history. Built in the 1730s, the Golden Fleece was a center for community and government ...

The Tavern

Through recently discovered documents and maps found in Scotland and the Netherlands, a Seafarer's Tavern was on this site in or around 1686.

Located on Charleston's working waterfront for three centuries, it has had many names: The Tavern on ...

The Wright Tavern

Built in 1747

Kept by Amos Wright in 1775

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Here met the Committees of the

Provincial Congress

on the eve of the Revolution

while the larger body sat

in a Meeting House close by.

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Headquarters of the Minutemen

in the early morning of

April 19, 1775

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Later that day

Headquarters of ...