Outagamie County, WI - "Taverns 1776-1976"
       
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Subject: newspaper article "Taverns 1776-1976"
Submitted by: county coordinator 
EMAIL: jmmarasch@aol.com
Date Submitted: 15 March 2000
       
Source: New London Press newspaper article from Bicentennial issue, undated.

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We'-ve Come A Long 'Way
                        TAVERNS -- 1776-1976
                                  
 Taverns were the earliest form of hotels in America.  They were the focal point of social and political life, since Thomas
Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence in Queen's Tavern, Philadelphia.
 It was in the Green Dragon Tavern that the Boston Tea Party was plotted, and officers in Washington's army were given
their farewell in Fraunces' Tavern, New York.
 Kentucky's taverns were strategically located one day's journey apart for the stagecoach.  Kentucky Bourbon was much
appreciated by their guests.  Many of today's popular mixed drinks had their beginning there.
 Wisconsin's early taverns held a prominent place as neighborhood social centers.  The first entertainment, exhibitions, town
meetings, elections, county fairs, as well as religious services were held in taverns.  The first licensed tavern in the state was
opened by John P. Arndt in Green Bay, 1825.
 Today's taverns stiff uphold their tradition as social and civic focal points, as well as places for food and lodging.