![]() As the Inn inches closer to its 275th anniversary in the community, the Friends of the Rising Sun Inn look to build on the Inn's already rich history through expanding the museum, developing a full range of youth and adult programming, and inspiring future generations to preserve historic sites and buildings, like the Rising Sun Inn, throughout Maryland and beyond. The Rising Sun Inn serves the Anne Arundel County community not only as a place for historic education through its programs and activities, but as a place to celebrate the community's past, present, and future. While the Inn still continues to serve as a place for meetings and social gatherings, the dreams of Alice Leakin Welsh, Bo Williams, and so many other have been realized in today's Rising Sun Inn. Days as a tavern keeper were long, hard, and often dirty. Meade solders during World Wars I and II, a Tea House during the intervening war years, drawing visitors from all over the world, and has been featured in Anne Arundel County House and Garden Tours right through the 1990’s. In addition to being maintained as a museum and historical site, the Inn served as a Red Cross Work Center and a Recreation Center for Ft. In the century since, the Inn has continued to play an important role in Anne Arundel County. Some who believe in ghosts say that Randolph never left the Inn, and that he lives there to this very day. Community content is available under CC-BY-SA unless otherwise noted. Williams' son, Benjamin Randolph, resided in the Inn until his death in 1913. Wetherburns Tavern was owned by Henry Wetherburn, and was across the street from the Raleigh Tavern, where Wetherburn had worked as a tavern keeper. To be a tavern keeper, you had to have a sharp business sense and understand how to obtain. Owning a tavern was a tricky business that often forced the tavern keeper to break the law and the ownership often ended in failure. Benjamin Williams resided in the Inn with his wife and their children until his death in 1894. The tavern served meals at a fixed time and usually consisted of a smaller fare than the private rooms. Randall owned the Inn until 1867 when he sold it to the Inn’s last family, the Williams. The Inn was then purchased by Alexander Randall, a Maryland Attorney General from 1864 to 1867. Many laws were drafted as to the proper running of these bars, and the tavern keeper was a profession. Records at time the Inn was sold describe the property as “old and going into rapid decay, and … daily deteriorating in value.” townships that constituted colonial North America. Mary continued to live at the Rising Sun Inn until the mid-1850’s when she was no longer able to maintain the property. Descendants of Colonial Tavern Keepers qualify for membership in the Flagon and Trencher Society. world, you know, in this country travels, except perhaps the tavern-keepers who. ![]() ![]() The Inn was then purchased by Adam Allen who resided there with his wife, Mary, until his death in 1845. In Part II I trace the early history of taverns in colonial America. ![]() The Inn was owned by Richard Caton, a wealthy merchant and husband of Mary Carroll, daughter of Declaration of Independence signer, Charles Carroll, until 1836. Following the Baldwin’s ownership, the Inn changes hands several times during the next 100 years. ![]()
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