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To: LonePalm

If there was a tun of booze there, is that why it was called Tun Tavern?


324 posted on 12/28/2022 7:44:41 PM PST by SERKIT ("Blazing Saddles" explains it all.......)
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To: SERKIT
From Wikipedia: The tavern was erected in 1686 at the intersection of King (later called Water) Street and Tun Alley by settler Joshua Carpenter, brother of Samuel Carpenter, a Quaker merchant who made a fortune trading in Barbados. Joshua Carpenter built the Tun on the carriageway that led to Carpenter's Wharf. Tun Tavern was named for the Old English word "tun", meaning a barrel or keg of beer. In the 1740s, a restaurant appellation, "Peggy Mullan's Red Hot Beef Steak Club" was added to the name of the tavern.

A sketch of the original Tun Tavern.

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338 posted on 12/28/2022 9:48:59 PM PST by LonePalm (Commander and Chef)
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