Charlton's Coffeehouse, Williamsburg, Virginia

 R. Charlton's Coffeehouse is the newest addition to the Colonial Williamsburg museum family. Coffee houses are not contemporary businesses; they were present and important in colonial times. Williamsburg hosted several, although apparently never more than one at a time.

Jefferson and Washington each wrote about visiting a coffe house in Williamsburg during their time in the House of Burgesses and during which Mr. Charlton was in business.  There is also historical evidence of a angry crowd following the stamp distributor to the coffee house  as part of the discord over the Stamp Act.