Bogart's Tavern and the Birth of Bucks County's Revolution
Near Trenton, Pennsylvania
Long before taverns became places of leisure, they were the internet of the colonial world: the spot where news arrived, decisions got made, and movements organized. Bogart's Tavern, established around seventeen sixty-three, was that kind of place.
By seventeen seventy-five and seventeen seventy-six, the tavern had become the headquarters of the Bucks County Committee of Observation and Inspection, the body that coordinated the county's response to British rule and organized the local revolutionary movement. Guns seized by the committee were used to raise a company of soldiers in the county. And when General Nathanael Greene needed a field headquarters in seventeen seventy-six, he set up at Bogart's. The tavern sat at the intersection of everything: colonial commerce, revolutionary politics, and the first armed mobilization of a county that would soon find itself on the front lines of the war for independence.
