Eagle Tavern

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Court Square (1828), Charlottesville, Virginia, created Floyd Johnson c. 1940 for "Early Charlottesville: Recollections of James Alexander, 1828-1874" edited by Mary Rawlings (1942) (Courtesy of Alb. Co. Hist. Soc.)

The Eagle Tavern (also known as the Old Eagle Tavern, the Eagle Hotel, or Mr. Wright's tavern) was a public house in historic Court Square that opened in 1791. [1] One owner was John G. Wright, who reopened the tavern on January 4, 1822. [2] The structure was located at 100 Court Square, later the site of the Farrish House Hotel. [3] It is one of several sites around Court Square that is purported to have served as a location for slave auctions.[4][5]

Historical Location

References

  1. ↑ Web. Charlottesville Downtown Walking Tour, Tom Kloster, Great Streets, Tom Kloster, retrieved April 16, 2012.
  2. ↑ Web. This Day in Charlottesville History, City of Charlottesville, retrieved April 16, 2012.
  3. ↑ Web. Charlottesville & Albemarle County Courthouse District, Journey Through Hallowed Ground, National Park Service, retrieved April 16, 2012.
  4. ↑ Web. 1619 Project - Slave Auction Sites, New York Times, February 20th, 2020
  5. ↑ Schulman, Gayle. Site of Slave Block? The Magazine of Albemarle County History, vol. 58, 2000.
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