The Remains of Back in the Day

“The Golden Ball Tavern”, just one of the incarnations of the old Inglis House. Named for the golden ball suspended from an iron road attached to the house.”

Annapolis Spectator, Thursday, January 20, 1927

Granville Ferry News

“Built in 1822 by the late Israel Letteney’s father, the house now owned and occupied by Dr Smith as an office was also built by the late Israel Letteney’s father. There are oldest buildings in the village except the store owned by Mrs Caswell and on her property. It was built before 1820.”

Granville Ferry Methodist Church, 1833-1965.

watercolour by Peter Crofter Davies

Another Granville Ferry gathering place was just down the street the old Inglis House.

Mid-Sixties view of the Church.

The Annapolis Spectator writer from 1927 continues about the Old Inglis House “…a room extending the whole length of the east side of the house upstairs was a ball room and it also contained a wine closet. Around many of the rooms was a chain railing – something to protect the walls when the chairs were tilted back. Robert Inglis and his wife Mary Inglis lived in it for many years and it became known as the Inglis house. Twenty years ago picture post cards of “the old Inglis house” were common.”

“…the store owned by Mrs Caswell and on her property. It was built before 1820.”

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Our thanks to Brenda Thompson for sharing her research on the Old Inglis House with us.