HistoryCommission2: Early Brunswick ad for hardware merchant Roy B. Wenner, whose business sold a variety of household and construction goods, including bricks and lime. At the time, Wenner's brother Charles M. operated a brickyard on the infamous 2nd Avenue hill. The fam...

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Early Brunswick ad for hardware merchant Roy B. Wenner, whose business sold a variety of household and construction goods, including bricks and lime. At the time, Wenner's brother Charles M. operated a brickyard on the infamous 2nd Avenue hill. The fam...

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== Summary ==
Early Brunswick ad for hardware merchant Roy B. Wenner, whose business sold a variety of household and construction goods, including bricks and lime. At the time, Wenner's brother Charles M. operated a brickyard on the infamous 2nd Avenue hill. The family home on N. Maple Avenue faced the brickyard.

Does anyone know the location of this business?

R.B. Wenner was a son of C.F. Wenner, who farmed the length and breath of North Maple, then known as Wenner's Hill, and operated the mill during the Civil War years until his death in 1882. Roy later re-located to Philadelphia. His son Roy Jr. was an associate of John B. (Jack) Kelly, father of Princess Grace of Monaco.

(Photo courtesy of City of Brunswick, Maryland History Commission; reprinted in the Brunswick Citizen in 1983))

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HistoryCommission2: Early Brunswick ad for hardware merchant Roy B. Wenner, whose business sold a variety of household and construction goods, including bricks and lime. At the time, Wenner's brother Charles M. operated a brickyard on the infamous 2nd Avenue hill. The fam...