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The building was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976. Established as a tavern in 1704, it was previously named the William Penn Inn, Wayside Inn, Tunis Ordinary, and Streepers Tavern before being renamed in 1793 in honor of American Revolutionary War hero General "Mad" Anthony Wayne, who had once stayed there.
The inn's archive has documents from 1686 onward, including the official inn license granted to the first innkeeper, David Howe, in 1716. [5] 1706 319 Ye Olde Centerton Inn unknown Pittsgrove: New Jersey: One of the oldest restaurants in NJ [6] 1714 311 William Penn Inn Robert Evans Lower Gwynedd: Pennsylvania: 40.20247°N 75.25618°W
General Wayne Inn, 625 Montgomery Ave., Narberth Roadside Business & Industry, George Washington, Inns & Taverns, William Penn Edward Hector: September 19, 1967: Intersection SR 3016 & 3013 (Fayette & Hector Sts.), Conshohocken: Roadside
In the basement of the Library building the Methodists hold worship. This is an ancient settlement, whose history dates back nearly to the arrival of William Penn, and is marked as a village on Lewis Evans' map of 1749. The post office was established here before 1827. In 1832 there were but ten houses here. — History of Montgomery County ...
In about 1681, a group of Welsh Quakers met with William Penn to secure a land grant to conduct their affairs in their language. The parties agreed on a tract covering 40,000 acres (160 km 2 ), to be constituted as a separate county whose people and government could conduct their affairs in Welsh.
Omni William Penn Hotel, Pittsburgh is a member of Historic Hotels of America, the official program of the National Trust for Historic Preservation. [6] The hotel also features a restaurant that dates from 1916, the Terrace Room, featuring among other amenities a wall long mural entitled "The taking of Fort Pitt".
The original grant of land from William Penn to William Harmer. William and George Harmer are listed among the Quakers who immigrated to Pennsylvania in 1682. [6] In 1716, William and George Harmer purchased a 408-acre tract from William Penn, an area including most of what now is Ambler Borough. [7]
The Richards brothers co-founded the Knoxville Iron Works beside the L&N Railroad, later to be used as the site for the World's Fair 1982. Of the original buildings of the Iron Works where Welsh immigrants worked, only the structure housing the restaurant 'The Foundry' remains. In 1982 World's Fair the building was known as the Strohause.