Alexandria, Virginia city hall
This view is from the rooms above the tavern looking at city hall. The City Tavern in Alexandria, Virginia is now called Gadsby’s Tavern Restaurant is where multiple early American presidents stayed, ate and networked starting with George Washington. Those presidents were George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and James Monroe. I have read that Madison more or less set up an office here and orchestrated the Constitutional Convention, inviting delegates and taking notes. While Alexander Hamilton is often credited with much of the writing of the Constitution, Madison was very much the organizer, secretary and diarist/ record keeper who instigated the convention. I guess you could say we visited “the room where it (the planning) happened.
Alexandria, Virginia city hall
This view is from the rooms above the tavern looking at city hall. The City Tavern in Alexandria, Virginia is now called Gadsby’s Tavern Restaurant is where multiple early American presidents stayed, ate and networked starting with George Washington. Those presidents were George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and James Monroe. I have read that Madison more or less set up an office here and orchestrated the Constitutional Convention, inviting delegates and taking notes. While Alexander Hamilton is often credited with much of the writing of the Constitution, Madison was very much the organizer, secretary and diarist/ record keeper who instigated the convention. I guess you could say we visited “the room where it (the planning) happened.