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This is a partial list of former public houses and coffeehouses in Boston, Massachusetts. In the 17th and 18th centuries in particular these types of venues functioned also as meeting spaces for business, politics, theater, concerts, exhibitions, and other secular activities.
[dubious – discuss] The stock exchange, insurance industry, and auctioneering: all burst into life in 17th-century coffeehouses — in Jonathan's, Lloyd's, and Garraway's — spawning the credit, security, and markets that facilitated the dramatic expansion of Britain's network of global trade in Asia, Africa and America.
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Pages in category "Coffeehouses and cafés in the United States" The following 103 pages are in this category, out of 103 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
London Coffee House, commonly referred to as the Old London Coffee House, was a coffee house in Philadelphia in the colonial-era Province of Pennsylvania, located on the southwest corner of Market (formerly High Street) and Front Streets.
England's first coffeehouses took off in Oxford in the early 1650s. By 1675, there were more than 3,000 across the nation, many operating as overnight bed and breakfasts.
The building with the American flag is the Tontine Coffee House. Diagonally opposite (southeast corner, extreme right) [1] is the Merchant's Coffee House, where the stockbrokers of the Buttonwood Agreement and others traded before the construction of the Tontine. On the right is Wall Street, leading down to the East River.
Many were also the local post office and or the polling place. The United States Postal Service had its origins in the private taverns and coffeehouses of America. [16] A depiction of Civil War troops reading their mail at the Eagle Tavern which doubled as the post office in Silver Spring, Maryland can be seen at the Silver Spring Library. The ...