Eagle Tavern (Halifax, North Carolina)
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| Location | Main St., Halifax, North Carolina |
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| Coordinates | 36°19′47″N 77°35′20″W / 36.32972°N 77.58889°W |
| Area | less than one acre |
| NRHP reference No. | 73001349[1] |
| Added to NRHP | April 24, 1973 |
The Eagle Tavern is a historic tavern built in the 1790s in Halifax, Halifax County, North Carolina. The tavern (known as the "Eagle Hotel" in the 1820s) served as an overnight stop for the official traveling party during the visit of the Marquis de Lafayette to the United States.[2] The tavern is demarcated as "E-68" on the North Carolina Highway Historical Marker Program.[3] It is a two-story, pedimented, T-shaped tripartite frame building. Previously located on the lot next to the Church of the Immaculate Conception Catholic Church at 145 South King Street in Halifax, the Eagle Tavern was donated to the Catholic Diocese of Raleigh in the 1963 will of Nannie Gary, a great granddaughter of Michael Ferrall, who then lived in the Eagle Tavern. After accepting the gift from Nannie Gary’s estate after her death in 1969 the Diocese determined that it was not feasible to use the Ferrall house (Eagle Tavern) for charitable or religious purposes. The house was then conveyed to the Historic Halifax Restoration Association and the house was moved up King Street in the 1970s to the location of the Halifax Visitors Center where it was restored and interpreted as a museum in the style of the “Eagle Tavern”.[4][5]
