City Directories and History: 1913 – W.L. McDowell, 1925 – W.L. McDowell, 1941 – Retta H. McDowell, 1964 – Robert S. Watkins
Reported to have been owned by Joseph Kershaw, the land and house, was later owned by Malcolm McCaskill. The sales price was $249, for the lot and not the house and lot, which McCaskill began constructing in circa 1832. Colonel James Chesnut held title to the property for three decades but apparently never occupied the house and in 1863 Morris Meyer foreclosed on the house and lived here until he returned to Hanover, NY in circa 1874. The tall two-story portico is in the same style of architecture as the Kershaw-Cornwallis house (see No. 1).
Later in the 20th century this was the home of W. Lawrence McDowell and his wife Elizabeth but in 1941 their daughter Henrietta McDowell, the owner of the Corner Book Store is the owner.
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