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The Green Dragon Tavern was located at Green Dragon Lane (today's Union Street) in Boston's North End. [2] At 0.75 acres (0.30 ha) in size, it was one of the largest structures in Boston. Primarily composed of brick, the building had three floors in the back and two in front; greeting visitors was a copper dragon mounted on an iron crane. [2] [5]
The North End caucus seems to have been launched in 1767, although the first records are from 1772. This caucus first met in the Salutation Tavern and later in the Green Dragon Tavern. Paul Revere was a member. [32] It is at the Green Dragon Tavern that Adams and the Caucus were said to have conspired to hatch the Boston Tea Party plot of 1773 ...
Green Dragon Tavern, Union west of Hanover. Greyhound, Washington opposite Vernon. Grotou House, 10 Sudbury Street. Half Moon, south corner Portland and Hanover. Hancock House, Corn Court. Hatch's, south corner Tremont and Mason. Hazlitt's, corner Washington and Palmer. Holland's Coffee House, Howard near Court. Horse Shoe, Tremont near Boylston.
The other site for that event is the historic bandstand at the Assonet Four Corners, built in the 1930s on the site of the former Green Dragon Tavern. Profile Rock , in the Freetown-Fall River State Forest , is a granite outcropping from Joshua's Mountain featuring the image of what local Wampanoag Indians have held to be the face of Massasoit .
Boston, Massachusetts Union Street is a street in Government Center , Boston , Massachusetts , near Faneuil Hall . Prior to 1828, it was also called Green Dragon Lane.
Stoughton was given the then-prestigious Green Dragon Tavern for his social status, one of Boston's most significant architectural and historical landmarks c. 1676. [44] [45] He died at home in Dorchester in 1701, while serving as acting governor, [46] and was buried in the cemetery now known as the Dorchester North Burying Ground. [47]
Green Dragon Tavern (1770) 17° Knight of the East and West Herod's reign, main gate of the Second Temple: 32° Sublime Prince of the Royal Secret Knighthood; Middle Ages: 18° Knight of the Rose Croix de Heredom Old Testament; Crucifixion; Resurrection: 33° Sovereign Grand Inspector General Tribe of Levi
Boston magistrate John Winthrop wrote in his journal on the date of 4 March 1634 that "Samuel Cole set up the first house for common entertainment," this being the first tavern or inn in the colony. [ 5 ] [ 6 ] While claims have been made that this was the first tavern in the American colonies, [ 7 ] there is evidence that it was predated by ...