The Cape Breton Tavern was built in 1731, and stood on the corner of Main street and Hancock square.  It was burnt in the general conflagration of June 17, 1775.

The Ship Tavern was built in 1748, and stood on the south-east corner of Charles River avenue and Water street.  It was kept by Benjamin Gerrish.

The Warren Tavern was built in 1775, and still stands on the south-west corner of Main and Pleasant streets.  It was first kept by Eliphalet Newell.  It was from that edifice that the procession connected with funeral ceremonies in honor of GEORGE WASHINGTON started on the 31st of December, 1799, when the nation mourned as one man the departed patriot, statesman, and chieftain, “upon whose like they should not look again.”

Trumbull’s Tavern stood on the north-east corner of Charles River avenue and Water street.  It was built in 1771.

The Indian Chief Tavern was built in 1779, and was the mansion of David Wood, an influential citizen of Charlestown.  It occupied the site of Harvard Church.  It was there that David Starrett, cashier of the Hillsboro’, N.H., bank, was said to have been robbed and murdered on the evening of March 26, 1812.  Suspicion attached to Samuel Gordon, the landlord.  A reward of $200 was offered for the recovery of his dead body, but without success.  In 1814 Hon. Nathan Appleton received a letter from Starrett, in South America, whither he had fled owing to the insolvency of the bank.  It contained a hall, in the second story, known as “Massachusetts Hall.”  It was removed in 1818 to the north-west corner of Main and Miller streets, and its name changed to Eagle Tavern.  It still stands, although it ceased to be a public house a quarter of a century since.

The Mansion House stood on the south side of City square and north-west corner of Warren avenue.  It was erected in 1780 by Hon. Thomas Russell as a family mansion, and occupied by him until his decease in 1796.  It was afterwards occupied by Commodore John Shaw, John Soley, Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of Freemasons of Massachusetts, and Andrew Dunlap, U.S.  District Attorney, who conducted the trial of the twelve pirates of the schooner “Pindu,” in 1834.  It was first occupied as a hotel in 1835, and kept by Gorham Bigelow, and afterwards by James Ramsay.  It was demolished in 1866 to make room for the Waverley House.

Page’s Tavern stood at the corner of Main and Gardner streets, and was afterwards known as “Richards’”, and more latterly, “Babcock’s.”  It was the starting-point of the Charlestown hourly coaches, which commenced running April 1, 1828, to Brattle street; fare, twelve and a half cents.  Passengers were accommodated by being called for, or left at their residences on cross streets.  It ceased to be a public house about a generation ago.

Piper’s Tavern stood on the south-west corner of Main and Alford streets.