A roadside tavern in Haddonfield, New Jersey—the Indian King—became the temporary meeting place for New Jersey's Patriot legislature in 1777, where lawmakers entered independence into the record, adopted the state seal, and began turning rebellion into functioning government while war raged nearby.

Rooted in Quaker-settled West Jersey and located on the King's Highway, the tavern served as a hub for travel, news, and politics; it survived occupation and changing ownership and is now preserved as a historic site that reveals how ordinary public spaces helped shape a state.