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 ...

Tavern Park

You are standing within Lot Number One of the Old town of Petersburg, as laid out for Abraham Jones, Jr., in December of 1783. The first owner was William Byrd II of Westover. William Pride purchased the lot in 1745, ...