Perryville receives grant to restore tavern of Revolutionary fame

George Washington slept here. He really did. Yes, it’s a familiar claim to fame for many historic properties up and down the Eastern Seaboard. But the Rodgers Tavern, a fixture in the Cecil County town of Perryville, can boast many visits from the nation’s first president.

The tavern was owned and run by Col. John Rodgers, a Revolutionary War veteran who operated the tavern and a Susquehanna River ferry often used by then-General Washington in the 1700s.

Perryville is now trying to find a way…