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Photographer: Don Morfe
Taken: October 2, 2010
Caption: Narbonne House Marker
Additional Description: Right side of the marker. Narbonne House in 1913 (photo to the right): 1. Original home (1672). 2. Gambrel-roof addition (1730s). 3. Lean-to (ca. 1800). 4. Carriage House (demolished 1965). (Top of the right side of the marker) The backbone of Maritime Massachusetts, however was its middle class; the captains and mates of vessels, the master builders and shipwrights, the rope-makers, and skilled mechanics of many trades, without whom the merchants were nothing.-Samuel Eliot Morison, Maritime History of Massachusetts 1921. (Left Photo) Sarah Narbonne in her front room in 1888. She died two years later in her 95th year. (Above photo) Discarded household goods included many everyday wares, as well as some high-quality ceramics.
Submitted: January 11, 2013, by Don Morfe of Baltimore, Maryland.
Database Locator Identification Number: p231108
File Size: 1.445 Megabytes

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