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Exeter | The Folsom Tavern
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Rebeccah tells us about the beautiful architecture & rich history of the Folsom Tavern.
Rebeccah tells us about the beautiful architecture & rich history of the Folsom Tavern. It has great significance to Exeter and to the Revolutionary War, as a meeting house and Tavern.
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Exeter | The Folsom Tavern
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Rebeccah tells us about the beautiful architecture & rich history of the Folsom Tavern. It has great significance to Exeter and to the Revolutionary War, as a meeting house and Tavern.
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We are, sitting in the Folsom Tavern, which is part of the American Independence Museum here on our campus.
It was built to impress, and it is a very impressive building.
It was started 1773, finished in 1775, just a few months before Exeter became the capital of New Hampshire during the Revolutionary War.
It was built by Colonel Samuel Folsom.
He fought in the French and Indian War, but he did not fight during the Revolutionary War.
But he was a very significant influence during that war.
It was located right in the center of town.
So when you came in, it was the first thing you saw.
It has a, a New England Georgian townhouse facade on it.
And it has, a hip roof, which is very rare for the north actually meant you see it much more in the south.
It also was built as what they called a double house, which means that it has, a center hallway, a center stair stairwell in it, and, and two chimneys.
It was Samuel's grandfather who had a tavern that was located around the corner, actually, on Water Street.
The burned in, 1768.
So, there's a family history to that, which I thought was interesting, and it had the most beautiful view, also of the Swampscott River, because none of the buildings were down, on Water Street.
And so that was where the, the harbor was, and it was it was, a beautiful setting.
So 1783 the society, of Cincinnati was, actually formed and organized here.
It was chosen for that.
And again, because it was also, an upper class location, the same retired or many retired officers from the Revolutionary War that wanted to, be remembered, for their, participation in our independence and liberty.
1789 George Washington, came through town.
It was, quite a much shorter visit than the community was anticipating.
But he did have breakfast here, and he did have breakfast in the front parlor, which has been documented.
And, they wanted him to stay for dinner and a little bit more celebration, but he had to to go on.
But there's an interesting aside to when he left to.
And this was witnessed by, one of the gentlemen that, accompanied him to Washington from town, out of town, as his carriage was leaving.
And, apparently they reached the top of High Hill and, he asked the carriage driver to stop, and, he looked back at Exeter and thought that it was quite a lovely, landscape.
He commented on that, which I think is very interesting.
And he did comment in his diaries, too, on his, different places that he stayed, including Exeter.
The tavern has been moved three times, which again makes it extremely interesting and also amazing that we have that we have ended up with this really beautiful, building in 1860.
They wanted to well, they wanted to, Front Street was expanded.
So when they did that, they just had to move the tavern a little bit back a little bit to the side.
So which is what they did, but they elevated it also.
And at that point they built, underneath, of the tavern, there was a restaurant and, there you could buy tickets for the, the train, etc., etc.. So it was there until 1929 when Standard Oil made an offer for the land, not the building.
And so the building at that point was sold to the Society of Cincinnati.
Keeping in mind the fact that this is where they were founded and it was moved, just a couple of streets over to Spring Street, which is, right now the west side of where we're sitting.
And so then in 2004, it was determined that it, it, it should be relocated to, to a point or a place on Water Street of prominence, which is what it had before, which is around the corner from Spring Street.
So it wasn't a major move, but again, it was significant.
And then from that move it was restored.
And by 2007, beautifully restored, I have to say.
And by 2007, it was open again, as a tavern.
So the society, has had a definitely an association with this whole property while, they were they did continue to actually acquire property, which made it possible when they did move the tavern in 2004 to have this wonderful location on Water Street.
And yes, they do continue to have an annual meeting here.
Very significant to them.
They really are committed to the integrity of the tavern and also to sharing it with the community, and certainly with the state, given its incredible historic value to the American Revolution.
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