Tavern - Notable Taverns/inns

Notable Taverns/inns

  • Catamount Tavern, birthplace of the Green Mountain Boys
  • City Tavern oldest and last remaining, Federal-period tavern in Washington D.C. and home of City Tavern Club in Georgetown
  • Fraunces Tavern, meeting place of the Sons of Liberty
  • Gadsby's Tavern, historic cultural center of Alexandria, Virginia
  • Green Dragon Tavern, meeting place of the Sons of Liberty
  • Grinder's Stand, tavern where Meriwether Lewis died in Lewis County, Tennessee
  • Little Bohemia Lodge, inn of the shootout, between bank robber John Dillinger and the FBI, in Manitowish Waters, Wisconsin
  • McFarland Tavern oldest continuously operating hotel in Illinois
  • Pre-Emption House, oldest hotel west of Chicago, in Naperville, Illinois
  • Rutledge Tavern, frontier meeting place of Abraham Lincoln's youth in New Salem, Illinois
  • Sauganash Tavern, Chicago's first hotel
  • Suter's Tavern, Federal-period tavern in Georgetown, Washington D.C.
  • Tun Tavern, birthplace of U.S. Marine Corps
  • Wayside Inn, America's oldest operating hotel, which started as Howe's Tavern in Sudbury, Massachusetts
  • Windsor Tavern, birthplace of Vermont's first constitutional government

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