Dry Tavern, PA

Dry Tavern is a census-designated place in Jefferson Township, Greene County, on high ground south of the Monongahela River and beside Rices Landing. Pennsylvania Route 88 runs through the community, with Route 188 meeting it nearby and linking the area to the river towns and roads of southwestern Pennsylvania. The 2020 census counted 655 residents. The name comes from a local tavern that sold no alcohol, an unusual bit of local vocabulary that has stayed attached to the place.

Dry Tavern’s setting is largely about elevation and connection. Homes and roads occupy the higher ground above the river, while Rices Landing supplies the nearby borough reference and the Monongahela provides the larger geographic one. Jefferson Township and the Greene County road network organize local services, with the community’s census-designated boundary preserving a named settlement inside the township. Dry Tavern is a small upland community whose name comes from a tavern, whose roads run toward the Monongahela, and whose map sits beside Rices Landing.