Eastport Walking Tour Stops 5-6

Stop #5, is located at Severn and First Street.  This is known as Eastport's Oldest House.  For nearly 100 years, it belonged to the Williams family.  Jonas and Louisa Williams and their 8 children moved here in 1876.  They used the first floor as a grocery store selling homemade sauerkraut to neighbors.  After she was widowed, Louisa offered her front parlor as a school and a polling place.  The house stayed in the family until 1972.  Today it's a bed and breakfast inn.

Stop #6 is Murphy's Row.  These 10 row houses were built in 1888 by Charles James Murphy for laborers employed at his company, the Annapolis Green Works, located just around the corner on Severn Avenue.  The 7th house was the first post office in the new community, which Murphy named after his hometown in Maine.  When the glass factory closed in 1902, "Murphy's Row" fell into disrepair.  In the early 1980's, the properties were remodeled, renamed after the developer's son, and sold as private residences.  While there were many duplex houses built in the early 1900's, these are Eastport's only example of the 19th century row house style.