Swan Tavern

SWAN TAVERN

  
APVA Marker                                             302 Park Street
Swan Tavern                                                                  

Site of the old Swan Tavern where lived and died Jack Jouett whose heroic ride saved Mr. Jefferson, the governor, and the Virginia Assembly from capture by Tarlton in June 1781.

Erected by the Monticello Branch of the Association for the Preservation of Virginia antiquities, 1910.