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After Michael Powell left Dedham for Boston in 1649, it left the town without a tavern keeper. [20] Fisher then opened Fisher's Tavern in what is present day Dedham Square, on Bullard Street, near "the keye where the first settlers' landed." [3] [9] [20] This public house featured the "Great Room" with a large fieldstone fireplace. [3]
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In rural communities, the tavern was a very important public space since it offered the community a place not only to meet but also to conduct business. The tavern also acted as an impromptu court house, where rules could be made, and disputes could be settled. [7] From 1660 to 1665, the Virginia government met in Jamestown at the local taverns.
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The William Brown House, also known as London Town Publik House or Londontowne Public House, is a former Colonial tavern located in the Historic London Town and Gardens museum complex in Woodland Beach, Anne Arundel County, Maryland. Completed in 1764, it is one of the best-preserved examples of a colonial-era brick tavern house.
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Founded as Fisher's Tavern in 1649 by Joshua Fisher, it eventually passed into the hands of Nathaniel Ames through a complicated lawsuit based on colonial laws of inheritance. It was eventually owned by Richard Woodward , who renamed it the Woodward Tavern by the time the convention that adopted the Suffolk Resolves met there.