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Title	Old tavern and store, Bolton.
Creator	Whitefield, Edwin, 1816-1892.
Place	Bolton (Conn.)
Topic	Taverns (Inns) Stores, Retail Dwellings
Theme	Lifestyle
Description	Two-story wood-frame building with a lunette in the gable and an addition at the rear. A fence and several hitching posts [?] are in front of the entrances. The building sits on a grassy hill with a dirt road at the far left and a log in the right foreground. Inscribed at upper right: "Bolton Old Tavern & Store." Numerous notations include: "Road / sandy" "distant" "The store at this end" "owned by Calvin Carver / & he is very old" "Fences broken & almost gone" "The man who drank / a quart of rum" "Was whitewashed once / but nearly all washed off / the upper front of the end / never painted." Inscribed on back: "Stage for Coventry leaves Bolton Station at 2.20" "A good many chestnut trees about / Bolton."<br>
Notes	Published as Plate 19 in The Homes of our Forefathers, by Edwin Whitefield, Boston, 1882. The published caption reads: "This was a busy place during the Revolutionary War, a vast amount of teaming being done along this highway. It is now a farm house merely, belonging to Calvin Carver, and is about 130 years old. It stands 1 1/2 mile from Bolton Station." <br>
Date created	[ca. 1880]
Physical format	1 drawing ; 11 x 17 cm.<br>
Digital format	image/jpeg
Identifier	Accession number 1976.68.0<br>File name 0523 img0030.pcd<br>
Source	The Connecticut Historical Society.
Rights	Reproduction and copyright information regarding this image is available from The Graphics Collection, The Connecticut Historical Society, Hartford.
Sub-collection	Drawings

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