Today, this historic old tavern is known as "Bill's Olde Tavern." Back
in the Late1800's and early 1900's it was known as the Mercerville Road
House. Mercerville was originally known as Sandtown. George Washington
marched from Trenton along today's Hamilton Avenue (then the Sandtown
Road) on his way to the battle of Princeton. He never made it to the old
tavern as his march veered to the north west (think Mercerville School
area) thence to Quaker Bridge thence to Princeton. A note about this
photo. Offset printing was in its early stages and most old news photos
from this era where of poor quality; this one is relatively better than
others from the era.
2 comments:
Great picture ..... thanks for posting it Tom.
Greatt post thankyou
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