Fraunces Tavern Museum
At the Fraunces Tavern, you’re stepping into one of the most important gathering places of colonial New York.
In the 18th century, taverns weren’t just for food and drink—they were business hubs. Before formal exchanges existed, merchants, ship owners, insurers, and early brokers met in places like this to negotiate deals, share information, and arrange trades. In many ways, taverns functioned as the earliest “trading floors,” where prices, news, and credit circulated informally.
Fraunces Tavern also played a key political role. It’s where George Washington famously bid farewell to his officers in 1783 at the end of the Revolutionary War, marking the transition from war to a new economic and political system.
This stop connects two worlds—finance and politics—showing how early markets weren’t built in institutions, but in rooms like this, where relationships, trust, and information drove everything.
10 minutes•Entrée non incluse•Voir sur la carte