The Eagle Tavern is a historic

tavern A tavern is a place of business where people gather to drink alcoholic beverages and be served food such as different types of roast meats and cheese, and (mostly historically) where travelers would receive lodging. An inn is a tavern t ...

built in the 1790s in Halifax,

Halifax County, North Carolina Halifax County is a county located in the U.S. state of North Carolina. As of the 2020 census, the population was 48,622. Its county seat is Halifax. Halifax County is part of the Roanoke Rapids, NC Micropolitan Statistical Area, which is al ...

. The tavern (known as the "Eagle Hotel" in the 1820s) served as an overnight stop on February 27, 1825 for the official traveling party during the

Visit of the Marquis de Lafayette to the United States From July 1824 to September 1825, the French Marquis de Lafayette, the last surviving major general of the American Revolutionary War, made a tour of the 24 states in the United States. He was received by the populace with a hero's welcome at m ...

. The tavern is demarcated as "E-68" on the North Carolina Highway Historical Marker Program.NC Markers
/ref> It is a two-story, pedimented, "T"-shaped tripartite frame building. It was moved to its present site in the 1840s. It was listed on the

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in 1973.

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