FIRST -- State Historic Site - Haddonfield, NJ
N 39° 53.938 W 075° 01.820
18S E 497407 N 4416544
Indian King Tavern is NJ's most historic buildings, named for the local Lenape Indians. It is an example of 18th-century colonial tavern architecture as well as where NJ was legally created. In 1903, the facility became NJ's first historic site.
Waymark Code: WM8A40
Location: New Jersey, United States
Date Posted: 02/26/2010
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There is a plaque which tells about this FIRST and of this history of this historic site. It reads Within this building a tavern house the council for safety of the state of New Jersey was organized on March 18, 1777. Herein also in September in the same year the legislature unanimously decided resolved that after the word "state" should be substited "colony" in all public writes and commissions.
This NJ Historic site is where it was decided New Jersey would be changed from a 'Colony' to a 'State' in 1777. Finished in 1750, the Indian King Tavern has been a central landmark in Haddonfield, New Jersey, for 255 years. This is also one of a slew of history museums along historic Kings Highway in the NRHP historic district of Haddonfield, NJ.
The Indian King Tavern was built in 1750. It is a crucial component of the Revolutionary War Period. In 1745, Mathias Aspden purchased this lot of land which was then filled w/ brewery buildings which he soon cleared for the tavern's construction.
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