Thursday, October 4, 2012

London Coffee House - Philadelphia



London Coffee House - 2nd Street and High (Market) Street. Popular spot 1750s -1780s. All the Brit officers sipped coffee there during the occupation of Philadelphia during the Revolutionary War.  1830 illustration showing slave market day of those times. Coffee House was unofficial stock market, insurance, goods exchange of its day.


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