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For more than sixty years, the Dutch Tavern
on Green Street has been an active "watering spot." In O’Neill’s
day it was owned by John H. Miller and was known as the Oak, closing its
doors in 1920 with the coming of Prohibition. The bar reopened as the
Dutch Tavern in the early 1930s.
At the turn of the last century, there were numerous seamen’s waterfront saloons as well as respectable taverns throughout New London and its environs. Men met at these establishments for drink, conversation, and conviviality. In many ways these barrooms and taverns functioned as men’s clubs, serving those who never would have been invited to New London’s exclusive Thames Club. On occasion, the Dutch Tavern has been the setting for staged readings of scenes from O’Neill’s cycle of sea plays and The Iceman Cometh. |
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