"For the Convenience of its Guests": Archaeological Perspectives on the 18th-century Tavern Porch.

Summary

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)" , at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology.

By the late eighteenth century, Virginia taverns were regularly equipped with long covered porches that served as outdoor living spaces for socializing and much-needed respite from the region's stifling heat and humidity. This paper draws on recent archaeological excavations of three eighteenth-century Williamsburg public houses: Charltons’ Coffeehouse, Wetherburn’s Tavern and the Raleigh Tavern to examine how tavern porches were constructed, the diversity of forms, and artifactual evidence of their use by both tavern keepers and patrons.

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• SHA 2022 General Sessions   •
• Society for Historical Archaeology 2022

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