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Golden Fleece Tavern Site

Dover, DE

Delaware delegates gathered at the Golden Fleece Tavern in 1787 around the time the state became the first to ratify the U.S. Constitution. The tavern itself is gone, but a surviving wall and marker preserve the unexpectedly ordinary setting of a major national event.

Filed under weird history: real events too strange to have made the textbook.

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Source: Atlas Obscura

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