The History of The Sun Tavern

The front part of The Sun Tavern was built in 1741. At the end of the nineteenth century it was owned by Lysander Walker who gained dubious fame when his story was published in the Boston Herald in an article titled “Last Duxbury Hermit”.

For some time Duxbury folk knew that all was not well with Lysander. With the stubbornness of advancing years intermixed with pride and sentiment he refused to leave the house which had sheltered him for so long and which he still called home.

In Duxbury, however, as in all small communities where the smoke of wood-burning stoves hangs heavy on the evening fog, a feeling of friendliness prevails, Lysander Walker had neighbors. Hardly a day went by that some member of the Belknap family did not drop in for a friendly word or to leave some tit-bit to tempt an appetite made dull by solitude. The children always watched as they passed by for the American flag which was the signal that something was needed at the store. The flag