One of the oldest buildings in Fredericksburg. General George Weeden,
years before the Revolutionary war, kept hotel in this house and was the
stopping place of Washington, LaFayette and other Colonial dignitaries.
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The Rising Sun Tavern is now owned by the Society for the Preservation of
Virginia Antiquities, who have renovated the building, but retaining in
every way the old style of architecture used in wooden buildings used in
the eighteenth century.