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Yew Hill-Robert Ashby's Tavern-Shacklett's Tavern

The main house was built about 1760–1761, and is a 1 1/2-story, three bay, Colonial-era frame structure.


Bathtub gin

The Simpsons episode "Homer vs. the Eighteenth Amendment" features Homer and Bart mixing and brewing alcohol, including gin, in various bathtubs in the basement and secretly supplying and distributing it to Moe's Tavern via an elaborate delivery system to avoid detection.

Beers Ago

It was released in March 2012 as the third single to his fifteenth studio album, Clancy's Tavern.

Boswell's Tavern

A few colonial troops were captured at the tavern in March 1781 by British colonel Banastre Tarleton in an attempt to capture Jefferson and to disrupt meetings of the Virginia legislature.

Burke's Tavern

Near the end of the American Civil War in 1865, the Union Brigadier General Thomas Alfred Smyth of Delaware, wounded at the Battle of High Bridge was brought to the house, where he died on April 9.

Cyrus McCormick Farm

The farm is near Steele's Tavern, Virginia and Raphine, Virginia, close to the northern border of Rockbridge County, Virginia and Augusta County, Virginia, and is currently a museum run by the Virginia Agricultural Experimental Station of Virginia Tech.

Fuller's Tavern

It opened as a tavern house in 1806 and is one of the few remaining inns of those built along the Great Western Turnpike in the late 18th century.

Hall's Tavern

Hall Tavern, Cambridge, Massachusetts, listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP)

Hill's Tavern

The tavern was built by Stephen and Thomas Hill, the founders of Hillsborough (now Scenery Hill, Pennsylvania).

Interior Alaska-Yukon lowland taiga

Warmer, south-facing valley slopes are home to rare plants that have survived in this harsh climate including Shacklett's Cryptantha (Cryptantha shacklettiana), Erysimum asperum and alpine golden buckwheat (Eriogonum flavum).

Leo's Tavern

The first concert of the series (May 2010) will feature Glen Hansard, Paul Brady and Sarah Siskind, and will be hosted by Moya Brennan.

The pub was reopened by Moya Brennan with her parents and siblings with music from the family, Cormac de Barra, Sinéad Madden and local musicians.

Park House Museum

This store lasted 25 years before they sold the property to Zarko and Bessie Vucinic, the owners of Duffy's Tavern.

Pete's Tavern

Pete's Tavern has appeared in numerous films and television programs, including Seinfeld, Ragtime, Endless Love, Law & Order, Nurse Jackie, "Spin City" and Sex and the City.

Stoopnagle and Budd

He did the goofy quiz show Quixie Doodles on Mutual and CBS (1941-44), continuing through the 1940s with The Colonel (1943), Stoopnagle's Stooperoos (1943), Burns and Allen (1943), substituting for Bob Hawk (1947), Vaughn Monroe's Camel Caravan (1947-48) and Duffy's Tavern.

The Quick Draw McGraw Show

A detective cat named Super Snooper (voiced by Daws Butler impersonating Ed Gardner as the character Archie from the radio show Duffy's Tavern) and his sidekick Blabber Mouse (voiced by Daws Butler, originally voiced by Los Angeles radio announcer Elliot Field).

Wright's Tavern

On April 19, the day of the Battle of Lexington and Concord, when the courthouse bell announced the approach of Major Pitcairn's British troops, the Concord Minutemen assembled at Wright's Tavern.


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