From The Connecticut River Valley in Southern Vermont and New Hampshire: Historical Sketches by Lyman S. Hayes, Tuttle Co., Marble City Press, Rutland, VT., 1929, page 222:
MORGAN'S TAVERN–OLDEST BUILDING IN BELLOWS FALLS–MORGAN FAMILY
The old building at the northwest corner of the Square, the first building going north on the west side of Rockingham Street, is the oldest building of any kind now standing in Bellows Falls village. It is adjacent to the Central House building and on a part of the same lot. It was known for many years subsequent to 1798 as "Morgan's Tavern." Quartus Morgan, who became its proprietor that year, often remarked that "it was a very old building when I bought it."
Mr. Morgan came to Bellows Falls in the spring of 1798 from West Springfield, Mass., making the journey with his wife on horseback. Their household goods came up the river by the fiat boat which then plied between here and Hartford, Conn. He had already purchased, through the influence of his brother-in-law, Leverett Tuttle, who was a part owner of the line of Connecticut river boats, this property which had been used several years as a tavern. This village was at that time having its first boom, for work had been actively prosecuted several years on the building of the canal, which has in all the years since then been such an active factor in the business of the place. The canal was begun in 1792 and the first boats passed through it in August of 1802, ten years later. All accounts indieate that this old hotel, or tavern, was a large factor then, and for many years thereafter, in the business and social life of the small village.
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After the navigation of the river began, this old building was one of the most important stopping places, for all kinds of refreshments, of any tavern for many miles north and south. Mr. and Mrs. Morgan continued it as a tavern until 1814, when, Mr. Morgan having died in 1810, and Mrs. Morgan having erected the dwelling on her farm just north of the village, now occupied by the family of William De St. Croix, she sold the tavern property. It is not known how long it was continued as a tavern, but probably until after the first hotel buildding had been erected on the present site of Hotel Windham in 1816. Since then the occupancy has been a varied one, mostly for tenements above and mercantile purposes on the ground floor.
In January of 1923 the local organization of Odd Fellows received a deed of it, together with the stables in the rear, with the expectation of sometime erecting a building to be occupied partially by them for fraternal purposes. Quartus Morgan was appointed postmaster of Bellows Falls in 1804 and continued in that office until his death in 1810. The office was located during these years in this building. His original appointment papers in 1804 and again in 1809, together with much correspondence in relation thereto with the department at Washington, are treasured in the town clerk's office. Among the letters are several written by hand, evidently with a quill pen, by the postmaster general himself, when the business of his department was not quite as voluminous as now. Also in the collection are a number of county licenses to Mr. Morgan as an "Inn Keeper" of that olden time.
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Jabez Hills, probably the most eccentric citizen in the history of Bellows Falls, succeeded Mr. Morgan as postmaster in 1810 and the office was that year moved to the Hall & Green general store on the east side of the Square. Mr. Hills retained the office twenty years, or until 1830.