Since 1785, this tavern has poured drinks for the men who built a nation — George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison — all raised a glass within these walls.
But one guest never checked out.
In October of 1816, a well-dressed couple arrived by ship, fleeing an illness that had already taken hold. The woman was dying.
She died within weeks. To this day, no one knows who she was. Her tombstone reads only: "To the memory of a Female Stranger."
This week, we step into one of America's oldest taverns — and we ask the question no one could answer two hundred years ago.
Who was she?