CSPAN3 American Artifacts August 31, 2014
Opened up the queens head tavern. And being down here in lower manhattan, you were at the center of commerce. So it was location, location, location. It was a very popular tavern. Soon, the politics of the times started really kicking up and Samuel Fraunces was a patriot, so having a tavern named after your king and queen was not a good idea, so people referred to it as sam Fraunces Tavern, which is what its known as today. The tavern was very popular. He had two kitchens, he had a savory kitchen and a sweet kitchen, which was very uncommon for the time. In the late 1760s, when the turmoil of ...