History for sale

For $28,440, tavern sign from 1700s could be on its way home to Canton

(Robert Hawking)

By Robert Knox

Globe Correspondent / March 9, 2008

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It was a piece of Revolutionary history, literally a sign of the times. It had hung, history buffs say, outside the Doty Tavern, the Colonial-era establishment in Canton where rebels gathered in August of 1774 - safely out of sight of their British rulers - to discuss the revolutionary principles that would become the Declaration of Independence. (Full article: 861 words)