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Black Horse Tavern was founded in 1794 by Henry Westbay, a native of Ireland. [1] That year, during the early stages of the Whiskey Rebellion, the rebels met at the Black Horse Tavern to plan attacks on federal forces. [2] Leaders of the rebellion intercepted federal mail between Philadelphia and federal troops at the tavern. [3]
The land and the building were purchased by Jean (John) Bonnet in 1779 and opened as an inn and tavern, which was used as a gathering place by protesting local farmers during the 1794 Whiskey Rebellion. Protesting the federal tax on whisky, local Pennsylvanian farmers gathered to raise a Liberty pole at the tavern as a symbol of their defiance.
The Whiskey Rebellion (also known as the Whiskey Insurrection) was a violent tax protest in the United States beginning in 1791 and ending in 1794 during the presidency of George Washington. The so-called "whiskey tax" was the first tax imposed on a domestic product by the newly formed federal government.
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By 1794, he had deeded the original tavern to his son George and deeded the second tavern to his son John Skinner Jr. [2] Sometime after October 21, 1794, President George Washington stayed at or travelled past "Skinners," while returning from Bedford to Philadelphia during the Whiskey Rebellion .
These fears were at the heart of the debate over the causes of the Whiskey Rebellion in western Pennsylvania in 1794. At the time, the United States was itself an emerging democracy.
The 1794 State of the Union Address was delivered by the first President of the United States, George Washington, to a joint session of the 3rd United States Congress on November 19, 1794. The speech came in the aftermath of the Whiskey Rebellion, an armed insurrection in the western counties of Pennsylvania against the federal excise tax on ...
In 1794, his stone house was probably the finest in the town, and was where President George Washington stayed while leading troops in the suppression of the Whiskey Rebellion. [4] Bedford was as far as Washington traveled with the troops; he turned their command over to Henry "Lighthorse Harry" Lee and returned to Washington, DC.