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Jean Bonnet Tavern

6048 Lincoln Highway

Bedford, PA

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The record

The Jean Bonnet Tavern stands at the junction of U.S. 30 and PA 31 outside Bedford, a large native-fieldstone inn built around 1762 by Robert Callender at a strategic crossroads on the old Forbes Road, the military route cut across the Alleghenies during the French and Indian War. Purchased by Jean Bonnet in 1779, it became one of the gathering places of the Whiskey Rebellion in 1794, when western Pennsylvania farmers protesting the new federal excise tax on distilled spirits met here and raised a liberty pole; that October, troops summoned by President Washington camped at the tavern on their march west to put down the uprising. Added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1979, it remains an operating restaurant and bed-and-breakfast on the four-story stone building's upper floors. It has long been called one of western Pennsylvania's most haunted spots — the tavern keeps a running 'ghost book' of guest accounts, and its Room 3, with a rocking chair reported to move on its own, is the most cited. Those accounts are presented as guest reports and tavern tradition rather than documented fact; the building's verified history is its Whiskey Rebellion role.

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  • Reported · The Room 3 rocking chair reported to move on its own (framed as the tavern's most-cited guest account)
  • Reported · A guest 'ghost book' of reported accounts kept by the tavern (framed as tradition, not fact)

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