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Old Tavern’s 1848 Turnpike Ledger of Meals and Mirth
A Broadway hotelkeeper’s grandfather kept a cashbook of a South Durham inn on a New York to Boston turnpike. Entries from March to December 1848 describe travelers, meals, lodging, and odd charges from six cents for pie to 31 cents for a candy peddler. The notes list quirky descriptors like Freckle faced boy and Whistling Man, with weddings, beer, oysters, and hay for horses shaping a vivid glimpse of frontier hospitality.
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