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Tun Tavern was a tavern in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania which served as a founding or early meeting place for a number of notable groups. It is traditionally regarded as the site where the United States Marine Corps held its first recruitment drive.^[1] It is also regarded as the "birthplace of Masonic teachings in America."^[2]

History

Founding

Samuel Carpenter erected the tavern beginning in 1685, it was finished in 1693. Built at the intersection of Water Street and Tun Alley, at what is today known as Penn's Landing, it was named both for the alley and the Old English word "tun", for a container of beer.^[3] In the 1740s, a restaurant, "Peggy Mullan's Red Hot Beef Steak Club", was added to the tavern.^[4]

Organizations founded in the Tavern

The tavern hosted the first meetings of a number of organization. In 1720, the first meetings of the St. George's Society (forerunner of today's "Sons of the Society of St. George") were held there.^[5] The Society was a charitable organization founded to assist needy Englishmen arriving in the new colony. In 1732, the tavern hosted St. John's No. 1 Lodge of the Grand Lodge of the Masonic Temple in its first meetings. In 1747, it became the founding point of the St. Andrew's Society, which, similarly to the St. George's Society, aided newly arriving Scottish.

The tavern was a significant meeting place for other groups and individuals. In 1756, Benjamin Franklin used it as a recruitment gathering point for the Pennsylvania militia as it prepared to quell Native American uprisings. The tavern later hosted a meeting of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and the Continental Congress. When Samuel Nicholas enacted a decision of the Continental Congress to form the Continental Marines, today known as the United States Marine Corps, he based recruitment at the Tavern, with then-proprietor Robert Mullen as the "chief Marine Recruiter".^[2]

Present Day

Tun Tavern no longer exists, having burned down in 1781. Its original location is now occupied by Interstate 95. Tun Alley is believed to have been between Walnut and Chestnut Streets; there is a commemorative marker at Sansom Walk and Front Street.^[6]

The National Museum of the Marine Corps in Quantico, Virginia contains a Tun Tavern-themed restaurant with a lunch menu, alcoholic beverages, and bread pudding.

External links

Marine Corps Birthday Celebration by United States Marine Corps History Division

References

^ "Tun Tavern History". Retrieved 2007-04-14.
^ ^a ^b Sturkey, Marion F. (2001) Tun Tavern (excerpt from "Warrior culture of the U.S. Marines") USMC Press. Retrieved 2008-09-02.
^ The tavern name was occasionally rendered as "Three Tons" and "Three Tuns" in J. Thomas Scharf and Thompson Westcott. 1884. History of Philadelphia, 1609-1884, Philadelphia: L. H. Everts & Co., Vol. I, pp. 203, 236.
^ The restaurant was called "Peg Mullen's celebrated beef-steak and oyster house" in John F. Watson and Willis P. Hazard. 1909. Annals of Philadelphia, and Pennsylvania, Philadelphia: Leary, Stuart & Co., Vol. I, pp. 394-395, 464-465, 469; "Peg" was also rendered "Pegg" in contemporary works, but not "Peggy."
^ J. Thomas Scharf and Thompson Westcott. 1884. History of Philadelphia, 1609-1884, Philadelphia: L. H. Everts & Co., Vol. I, p. 233.
^ "Tun Tavern Historical Marker". Retrieved 2010-11-08.

[TThistory-1] "Tun Tavern History". Retrieved 2007-04-14.

[Tun-2] Sturkey, Marion F. (2001) Tun Tavern (excerpt from "Warrior culture of the U.S. Marines") USMC Press. Retrieved 2008-09-02.

[3] The tavern name was occasionally rendered as "Three Tons" and "Three Tuns" in J. Thomas Scharf and Thompson Westcott. 1884. History of Philadelphia, 1609-1884, Philadelphia: L. H. Everts & Co., Vol. I, pp. 203, 236.

[4] The restaurant was called "Peg Mullen's celebrated beef-steak and oyster house" in John F. Watson and Willis P. Hazard. 1909. Annals of Philadelphia, and Pennsylvania, Philadelphia: Leary, Stuart & Co., Vol. I, pp. 394-395, 464-465, 469; "Peg" was also rendered "Pegg" in contemporary works, but not "Peggy."

[5] J. Thomas Scharf and Thompson Westcott. 1884. History of Philadelphia, 1609-1884, Philadelphia: L. H. Everts & Co., Vol. I, p. 233.

[TTmarker-6] "Tun Tavern Historical Marker". Retrieved 2010-11-08.

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 ===Present Day===
-Tun Tavern no longer exists, having burned down in 1781. Its original location is now occupied by [[Interstate 95 in Pennsylvania|Interstate 95]]. Tun Alley is believed to have been between Walnut and Chestnut Streets; there is a commemorative marker at Sansom Walk and Front Street. A present day location exists in Atlantic City, New Jersey, that also brews it's own beer. <ref name=TTmarker>{{cite web|accessdate=2010-11-08|url=http://www.governor.state.pa.us/portal/server.pt/community/pennsylvania_historical_marker_program/2539/search_for_historical_markers/300886|title=Tun Tavern Historical Marker}}</ref>
+Tun Tavern no longer exists, having burned down in 1781. Its original location is now occupied by [[Interstate 95 in Pennsylvania|Interstate 95]]. Tun Alley is believed to have been between Walnut and Chestnut Streets; there is a commemorative marker at Sansom Walk and Front Street.<ref name=TTmarker>{{cite web|accessdate=2010-11-08|url=http://www.governor.state.pa.us/portal/server.pt/community/pennsylvania_historical_marker_program/2539/search_for_historical_markers/300886|title=Tun Tavern Historical Marker}}</ref>
+The [[National Museum of the Marine Corps]] in [[Quantico, Virginia]] contains a Tun Tavern-themed restaurant with a lunch menu, alcoholic beverages, and [[bread pudding]].
 ==See also==
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 ==External links==
 *[http://www.tecom.usmc.mil/HD/Customes_Traditions/Birthday_Celebration.htm Marine Corps Birthday Celebration] by [[United States Marine Corps History Division]]
-http://www.tuntavern.com/
 ==References==