Digest>March 2000
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A twist of fate may have saved the Tayloe home in Washington, North Carolina. It was here that Dr. Tayloe I married Mary Elizabeth Grist in November 1856 before the outbreak of the Civil War. In that happier time the wedding was a major event and guests were served the first ice cream ever enjoyed in Washington. During the Civil War the beautiful two-story home named Elmwood was picked by Union doctors to become a hospital during Federal occupation of the town and was thus spared when much of the rest of the town was burned by Union troops. Back to the edition of: March 2000
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LETTERS REVEAL LAST JOURNEY OF THE HATTERAS LENS BUT END IN A MYSTERY
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