The Commix Hotel, a restaurant at 3245 W. Emmaus Avenue in Salisbury Township, had a role in a famous historical event in 1799, called the Fries Rebellion. In 1798, tensions between taxpayers and the goverment began to escalate when Congress imposed $2 million in new taxes on real estate and slaves to help pay for an undeclared war with France, known as the Quasi-War, fought mostly at sea. Citizens discovered they had to pay this new tax when assessors came to their homes.  Since few Pennsylvanians owned slaves, the tax was assessed upon houses and land---the value of houses was determined by…