Bull's Head Tavern

New York, New York, 46 Bowery, New York, NY 10013, USA

Description

Bull's Head Tavern originally a terminal for wagon trains quickly become a livestock yard, market and gambling center.

Opened, 1755

Relocated, 1813

The tavern relocated uptown to Third Avenue and East 23rd Street, where it survived into the 1830s. A modern tavern of the same name operated at this location from 1996 to April 2015.[2] using the same bull’s head logo as the original establishment.

Factoids

The tavern was later owned by local butcher Henry Astor, the patriarch of the notable Astor family.

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Evacuation Day-George Washington established his temporary headquarters in November 1783. He met his troops here before the victory march into NY.