 It
turns out there is also a King of Prussia Inn in Cornwall, England as
shown in this photo contributed by Elvira Woodruff. She writes:
Michael,
A
alas
after I did some digging I found that the King of Prussia in Cornwall
was a smuggler who reigned between 1770-1807!His real name was John
Carter and he smuggled his booty to a sheltered cove off Mount Bay..
But because
he came after your inn was built I don't suppose they named the inn
after him....the book I found him in is called Cornwall and It's People
by
A.K.H. Jenkins...which I found this paragraph..."There is little doubt
that for
the majority of poor people living in west Cornwall at this time, there
was only one King of Prussia....whilst the deeds of the smuggling king
at their doors had reached a pitch of notoriety almost eclipsing the
fame of Bonaparte himself". So the pirate king's fame must
not have
reached Pennsylvania...but in Cornwall he was quite the man! Sorry,
to have stirred up your interest for nothing...but always fun to imagine
some rogue with an earring and a gold tooth at the heart of a nice
upstanding
town! best Elvira
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