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Fraunces Tavern

New York

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Wright’s Tavern

Concord MA

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Fraunces Tavern

New York

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McCrady’s Tavern

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Tun Tavern

Philadelphia

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Learn more about the history behind Colonial-Era bars still in operation today, including where the Boston Tea Party was planned, and the bar that serves up beer inspired by Benjamin Franklin's personal recipe.

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The Old Hall Under Moonlight, John Atkinson Grimshaw

Alcohol, bars, and innovation have a storied relationship. Whether it’s the infamous Pet Rock, which Gary Dahl conceived while drinking with friends, or

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George Washington, in a 1796 watercolor by Benjamin Henry Latrobe, using a telescope at Mount Vernon, Virginia.

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Glass stereoview of George Washington’s Mount Vernon plantation house in Fairfax County, Virginia, c. 1850′s. It was probably owned by John Augustine Washington, a great grandnephew of George Washington, at the time that the photograph was taken by the Langenheim brothers.

Source: New York Public Library.

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Greenhouse (Orangerie), Mount Vernon, Fairfax, 2018.

The original was destroyed by fire a number of years ago, and thus this is a 20th century facsimile. When Washington was alive tender plants, including citrus, were moved indoors by slaves who were also responsible for keeping the fires burning in order to keep the building from freezing. There are larger and grander Orangerie at Versailles and at many other aristocratic properties in Europe.

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George Washington’s Dining Room At Mount Vernon

One of the most striking spaces in the Mansion, the dining room is part of the original house, built in 1734. Over the years, the room underwent a series of renovations. While Washington was away commanding the Continental Army in 1775, it was updated under the supervision of his cousin Lund Washington. In 1785 striking verdigris-green paint was added. Washington believed the color to be “grateful to the eye" and less likely than other colors to fade; an overcoat of glaze further intensified the color.

In 1775 Washington decided to install an elaborately decorated plaster ceiling and add plaster ornaments above the fireplace. He hired an expert plasterer, identified simply as the “Stucco Man,“ who spent five months completing the hand-tooled ceiling. A renovation in 2001 uncovered some of his original pencil drawings on the ceiling laying out the design.

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1609 advertisement for settlers from England to Virginia by the London Company. This company was given a charter over North American land between North Carolina and New York. Colonies founded by the Virginia Company were financially unprofitable until they began to exploit indentured servants to work in tobacco fields. The English government took direct control of these colonies in 1624.

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Linnville, Virginia

circa 1788

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Dudley Digges house, Yorktown, Virginia, ca. 1760. The structure was extensively damaged by cannonball fire during the siege of 1781, but enough of the house survived to undergo restoration in the 1960s.

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