An Embryonic City

Or, what every urban settlement in America once was

For last week’s “What Do You Think You’re Looking At?”, I featured a tavern/hotel in Three Bridges, New Jersey that’s about a century old:

That Facebook post [which inspired me to feature this building] also included a neat piece of trivia: it turns out this was Hunterdon County’s first establishment to be raided after the passing of Prohibition! It’s th…