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Marblehead Junior High Archives Historical Building Survey Historical Importance: First used as a farm house, then used as a Tavern and Candy Shop. People came from all over to have the famous Joe Frogger cookies and to pitch pennies in the pond. After, they would go into the tavern to listen to Black Joe's fiddling. Black Joe was a Revolutionary War hero. His gravestone can be found up on Old Burial Hill.
Gingerbread Hill - Black Joe's Tavern -Archives Catalog -Copyright Marblehead Historical Commission
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Rev. 2.0 2/2013 Contact the Historical Commission at 781-639-3425 or e-mail us (please include the "Object ID" number, not the Record Number)     historic@marblehead.org
Last modified on: February 22, 2013