Sign, Trade

From Windsor Historical Society

1816 – 1838 (Date manufactured/created)
1816 – 1838 (Earliest/Latest dates)

wood, metal

52.25in H X 22.75in W

Wooden tavern sign with the portraits of Captain James Lawrence and Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry painted on it. The tavern sign originally marked Henry Sill's 1816 tavern. This tavern once stood across the street from WHS. When Ebenezer Bissell established his tavern in the Hayden Station section of Windsor later in the nineteenth century, he reused the sign from the Sill Tavern, repainting his name over Sill's.
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Accession/ID Number 1925.003.001