Palmer Marsh House - BB3
N 35° 28.614 W 076° 48.833
18S E 335437 N 3927443
Located on S Main St in Bath, NC
Waymark Code: WM247R
Location: North Carolina, United States
Date Posted: 09/01/2007
Views: 44
Palmer Marsh House
Colonial home of Colonel Robert Palmer, Surveyor-General of North Carolina 1753-1771 and Collector of Customs for the Port of Bath. Built C. 1744, probably by Michael Coutanche, it is one of the oldest surviving dwelling-houses in the State. Governor William Tryon described Palmer's home as "a very excellent house...at Bath which I often resided in with my family, being hospitably entertained." After Colonel Palmer left for England in 1771 his son lived in the house until the mid-1780's. In the 19th Century it was the home of the Jonathan Marsh family, shipowners and merchants, originally from Rhode island.
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