
Bull's Head Tavern was an establishment located on
Bowery, a street in
Manhattan
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,
New York City
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.
History
The tavern opened around 1750. It was initially used as
recruitment centerfor
Loyalists fighting for the
British in the
American Revolutionary War
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. It was also famous for being the place where
George Washington
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established his temporary headquarters in November 1783. The tavern was later owned by local butcher Henry Astor, the patriarch of the notable
Astor family.
In 1813, the tavern relocated uptown to Third Avenue and East 23rd Street, where it survived into the 1830s. A modern tavern of the same name operated at this location from 1996 to April 2015.
using the same bull’s head logo as the original establishment.
References
Bowery
Astor family residences
George Washington
Taverns in the American Revolution
1750 establishments in the Province of New York
New York (state) in the American Revolution
Taverns in New York City
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