Fraunces Tavern Museum
54 Pearl St 2nd floor, New York, NY 10004, USA
New York, USA
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TAVERN
EST. 1762
EST. 1762
December 4, 1783
Fraunces, Samuel
McHenry, James
Hamilton, Alexander
Tilghman, Tench
Knox, Henry
Washington, George
Lincoln, Benjamin
Wayne, Anthony
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HISTORIC PRESERVATION at Fraunces Tavern Museum.
A heavily restored and partly reconstructed historic tavern building operating as both a museum and restaurant in Lower Manhattan. Owned by the Sons of the Revolution in the State of New York, it contains period rooms, exhibition galleries, collections, dining spaces, and preserved architectural fabric.
About Fraunces Tavern Museum
Samuel Fraunces operated this tavern during the Revolutionary era. New York’s Sons of Liberty met here, and the building later served American and British officials during the city’s occupation and evacuation. On December 4, 1783, George Washington gathered his officers in the Long Room and delivered an emotional farewell before leaving military service. The tavern consequently became one of the best-known landmarks associated with the Revolution’s conclusion.
HISTORY HAPPENED HERE at Fraunces Tavern Museum
Before the American Revolution, the building was one of the meeting places of the secret society, the Sons of Liberty. During the tea crisis caused by the British Parliament's passage of the Tea Act 1773, the Patriots forced a British naval captain who tried to bring tea to New York to give a public apology at the building. The Patriots, disguised as American Indians (like those of the Boston Tea Party), then dumped the ship's tea cargo into New York Harbor. In 1768, the New York Chamber of Commerce was founded by a meeting in the building.
In August 1775, Americans, principally the 'Hearts of Oak' – a student militia of Kings College, of which Alexander Hamilton was a member – took possession of cannons from the artillery battery at the southern point of Manhattan and fired on HMS Asia. The British Royal Navy ship retaliated by firing a 32-gun broadside on the city, sending a cannonball through the roof of the building.
A week after British troops had evacuated New York on November 25, 1783, the tavern hosted an elaborate "turtle feast" dinner, on December 4, 1783, in the building's Long Room for U.S. Gen. George Washington during which he bade farewell to his officers of the Continental Army by saying "[w]ith a heart full of love and gratitude, I now take leave of you. I most devoutly wish that your latter days may be as prosperous and happy as your former ones have been glorious and honorable." After his farewell, he took each one of his officers by the hand for a personal word.
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