Oil Painting of the Dunbar Tavern as it looked circa 1735, Halifax, Massachusetts
Subject
Dunbar Tavern (Halifax, Mass.)
Description
Oil painting of Dunbar's Tavern, West of the Halifax Elementary School as it looked circa 1735. The Tavern was torn down in 1896. The likeness was drawn by Nellie Sturtevant Taft, great, great granddaughter of Deacon Samuel Sturtevant.
The Packard Brothers founded a store on the land directly opposite the Town Hall. Provisions, grain for farmers, the Post Office and weighing scales made up the major part of their business. There is a coach to the right with someone inside and a man and young boy on the front porch. Pope's Tavern can be seen to the far right. The coach may have been dropping a guest off at the Tavern as travelers were known to spend the night there.
"Pope's Tavern" from the corner of South Street and Plymouth Street. The "outbuildings" have been taken down. Today this building is used for the Council on Aging (2013).