by J.O.K. Walsh | Dec 19, 2019 | Preservation
The Society documented the dwelling in 2005 for the National Park Service as the only surviving UGRR station house on the Eastern Shore. It was then placed on the National Register of Historic Places. The UGRR network that operated here was run by Quakers and free...
by J.O.K. Walsh | Dec 19, 2019 | Preservation
Despite living his life in the local Long Depression (1819-1895), Jesse Hubbard (c. 1811-1879) was determined to erect for his wife and nine children a fine house in the Greek Revival style of architecture, a style then prevalent in the Deep South and other prosperous...
by J.O.K. Walsh | Dec 19, 2019 | Preservation
Despite being a widow with seven children, Rebecca Tylor (1823–1884) was indomitable in addressing local ills: She educated free and enslaved blacks, sought fair treatment for county “Poor House” inmates, demanded equal rights for women, advocated prohibition, took in...
by J.O.K. Walsh | Dec 19, 2019 | Preservation
The 1927 Denton Firehouse was the epitome of the bygone era of a true “community project”. This photo c. 1927 shows original truck doors to be reinstalled and façade to be restored. The original was doubled in size by an addition in 1954. In the 1970’s,...
by J.O.K. Walsh | Dec 19, 2019 | Preservation
Thee location of Barwick’s Tavern (c. 1775–c. 1790) was part of a colonial commercial cluster of now-vanished buildings that once included a government-mandated tobacco warehouse, a “jail”, a ferry crossing and several buildings that all predated 1747. The...
