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Tun Tavern was a tavern and brewery in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, which was a founding or early meeting place for a number of notable groups. It is traditionally regarded as the site where what became the United States Marine Corps held its first recruitment drive during the American Revolution. [ 1 ]
Tun Tavern Restaurant & Brewery is a brewpub in Atlantic City in Atlantic County, New Jersey. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The brewery opened to the public in 1998 and was named for the historical Tun Tavern , a colonial establishment located in Philadelphia from 1685–1781.
The earliest minute book of any Masonic lodge on the North American continent is that for Tun Tavern Lodge No. 3 of the Moderns in Philadelphia. [3] The Tun Tavern was the first "brew house" in the city, being built in 1685, and was located on the waterfront at the corner of Water Street and Tun Alley.
Tun Tavern, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, is regarded as the birthplace of the Corps as the location of the first Marines to enlist under Commandant Samuel Nicholas, [2] [3] [4] though it is disputed if a recruiting drive may have occurred earlier at Nicholas's family tavern, the Conestoga Waggon . [5]
Though legend places its first recruiting post at Tun Tavern, historian Edwin Simmons surmises that it was more likely the Conestoga Waggon , a tavern owned by the Nicholas family. Robert Mullen, whose mother owned Tun Tavern, later received a commission as a captain in June 1776 and likely used it as his recruiting rendezvous. [2]
Taverns in North America. The Vera Cruz Tavern in Vera Cruz, Pennsylvania. Taverns in North America date back to colonial America. Colonial Americans drank a variety of distilled spirits. As the supply of distilled spirits, especially rum, increased, and their price dropped, they became the drink of choice throughout the colonies. [1]
Casualties and losses. 37 killed. US body count: 106 killed 24 individual and 9 crew-served weapons recovered. Operation Green River was a security operation during the Vietnam War conducted by the 1st Brigade, 5th Infantry Division in Quảng Trị Province from 19 January to 22 July 1970.
St. John's No. 1 Lodge, more commonly known as the Tun Tavern Lodge in Philadelphia, with the oldest Masonic document in America Topics referred to by the same term This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title St. John's Lodge .