Editing Canonsburg, Pennsylvania (section)

===Black Horse Tavern===
{{main|Black Horse Tavern (Canonsburg, Pennsylvania)}}
[[File:Black Horse Tavern Canonsburg.jpg|thumb|upright=1.1|Black Horse Tavern]]
Black Horse Tavern was founded in 1794,<ref name=cumrine>{{Cite book |last=Crumrine |first=Boyd |title=History of Washington County, Pennsylvania with Biographical Sketches of Many of Its Pioneers and Prominent Men |chapter=Canonsburg Borough |publisher=L. H. Leverts & Co. |year=1882 |page=601 |chapter-url=https://archive.org/stream/historyofwashing00crum#page/n663/mode/2up}}</ref> on the road between Budd's Ferry on the [[Youghiogheny River]] to McFarlen's Ferry on [[Monongahela River]].<ref name=clouse>{{Cite book |author1=Jerry Allan Clouse |author2=Louis M. Waddell |author3=Bruce D. Bomberger| title = The Whiskey Rebellion: Southwestern Pennsylvania's frontier people test the American Constitution| publisher = [[Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission]]|year=1994 | pages = 63| url = https://books.google.com/books?ei=NvyPTZ__N8Lm0gHV64jACw}}</ref> Some sources identify the Black Horse Tavern as the birthplace of the [[Whiskey Rebellion]].<ref>{{Cite book|chapter=Canonsburg|editor=Philip W. Goetz|editor-link=Philip W. Goetz|title =The New Encyclopædia Britannica| publisher = [[Encyclopædia Britannica]]|year=1983| page = 517|quote=In 1794, the Whiskey Rebellion (an uprising of farmers against excise tax on distilled liquor) began there [Canonsburg] at the Black Hose Tavern.}}</ref> Other sources are less certain on the role of the tavern in the rebellion, ascribing the tavern's prominent role in the Whiskey Rebellion to "[[Legend|local tradition]]."<ref name=clouse /> By 1795, a "nailing business" was started at the location.<ref name=cumrine /> In 1910, the remains of the tavern were removed to make room for the new [[Canon-McMillan School District|Canonsburg High School]].<ref>{{Cite web| last = Herron, Jr.| first = James T.| title = Canonsburg School Board Minutes, Nov. 3, 1910 and Jan. 3, 1911| work = Jefferson College Times| publisher = Jefferson College Historical Society| date = May 2000 | url = http://www.chartiers.com/jeff/2000-May/Mccartny.html| quote=In 1910 the Canonsburg school board accepted his [Dave McCartney] bid to tear down what was left of the old Black Horse Tavern! The school district was planning to build a high school on the site. He signed the proposal with his mark. }}</ref>