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 RISING SUN TAVERN - Fredericksburg, VA Posted by:  vhasler
N 38° 18.406 W 077° 27.700
18S E 284760 N 4242719
Built around 1760, the tavern provide a scene for social life during the founding of the country.
Waymark Code: WM9ZCQ
Location: Virginia, United States
Date Posted: 10/21/2010
Views: 5
The RISING SUN TAVERN (open 9-5 weekdays, adm. 25$), Caroline St. between Fauquier and Hawke Sts., a one-and-a-half-story frame building covered with broad hand-beveled clapboards, is approached by a small stone porch, recently restored. Its gabled roof is pierced by three tiny dormers and built-in end chimneys. The banquet room includes a paneled corner fireplace and a handsome built-in cupboard.
The building was owned and, traditionally, built about 1760 by Charles Washington. Situated on the main north-south highway, it was a stage stop and post office. In the hands of 'Mine Host' Weedon it was a social and political center, where the fiery patriot served sedition as well as wine. Weedon has been identified, apparently, as Gerhard von der Wieden, a German officer from Hamburg, who fought in the French and Indian campaigns and settled in Fredericksburg. Here George Mason, George Wythe, Edmund Pendleton, Thomas Jefferson, and Thomas Ludwell Lee met on January 13, 1777, and outlined the bill that Jefferson later phrased and Madison presented to the Virginia assembly in 1785, when it passed as the Statute of Virginia for Religious Liberty. The Peace Ball, attended by Washington and his mother, his officers, La Fayette, Rochambeau, de Grasse, and others, in celebration of victory at Yorktown, was held in 1781 in the assembly room, long since burned.
Located at 1306 Caroline St. Open Monday thru Saturday during March-Oct at 10AM-5PM and Nov-Feb at 11AM-4PM. Open Sundays year around noon-4PM. Admission is $5 adults, $2 students. (Note: The $0.25 admission in 1940 would now be $3.83 using the Consumer Price Index.)
Book: Virginia
Page Number(s) of Excerpt: 222
Year Originally Published: 1940
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