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Some Colonial & Revolutionary Era Inns of Warwick
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Francis
Baird’s Tavern, built 1766
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on
the King’s Highway
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George
Washington and many troops and
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officials
stopped here
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Jacobus
Post “Shingle House” at
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Edenville
(Union Corners Rd., no
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longer
standing), built 1734.
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The
road from Goshen through Florida
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was another
alternate route, and
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Washington
and troops also went this
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way. His official mail also went this way,
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in
order to avoid British patrols near
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NYC.
This house was also an inn.
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Revolutionary
War; Accomplishments of colonial inhabitants; economy
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