When you hoist a pint of Dear Old Mum at Chowning’s Tavern in Colonial Williamsburg, you’re renewing a tradition started by America’s founding fathers back in the 1700s. Stop into any of the pubs on the street Franklin Roosevelt called “the most historic avenue in all of America,” and you’ll imbibe in the very halls in which a nation was born.George Washington, Thomas Jefferson and Patrick Henry all rubbed elbows, spun stories and planted the seeds of a revolution at these taverns located on Duke of Gloucester Street. This avenue, named after the heir to the English throne, not only became a business and hospitality hub, but also America’s second-ever university and the future site of Virginia’s capitol building.

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