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building was constructed in 1900, and 1 (One) East
Potomac Street became the address of the local Post Office. A post card features this building. Meanwhile, brother Joseph, who married Ida Booth, bought all of Martha's property except 1, 3, and 5 East Potomac Street, which she held the rest of her life. For this he paid $150. The next year Joseph in tum sold the property to Mehrlings for $1600.
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100 BLOCK EAST POTOMAC STREET
Only three of the thirteen lots on this block retain their original structures. Werntz' dry goods and grocery stores, later People's Home Furnishers, burned out, as did Miss Katy Barnard's Boarding House and Cage's Garage. The hotel, Foster' s, and Howard Marvin Jones' buildings were sacrificed for what has finally become owned by the Brunswick Gas and Go. The YMCA was also lost to a fire.
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LOTS OF INTEREST ON LEONARD SMITH'S PLAT OF BERLIN
Lot 7: South Virginia A venue, west side, first lot north of railroad tracks (1848, Warehouse: 1891, Wm. Elgin)
HUDSON'S ROW
Although Hudsons owned property and had a bakery below the westbound tracks, they also invested and built in Brunswick. The houses known as Hudson's Row have all been razed.
Lot 6: Opposite Lot 7, sou th of tracks (1887, Wm. L. Gross, 1893, Wenner, Swank & Co.) Lot 3: Canal goes through Lot 1, Lot 2 is next, then Lot 3 "Lock House."
J. J. NEWBERRY
Lot 24: Southeast comer Potomac and Virginia Avenues (1910 Reformed Church.)
This store with three entrance doors started ir the middle room, with Eugene Cost's store and the recreational property beside it. The side rooms were later acquired by J. J. Newberry.
Lot 28: South Virginia Avenue at RR track, east side Virginia Avenue (1873 Redmen's Hall on west end of lot.)
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102 "A" STREET
Lot 31: East side of Virginia Avenue, third lot south of RR tracks (The Brunswick Herald, Edw. C. Shafer.)
Long known as the Dr. West house, 102 "A" Street is still the lovely Victorian dwelling generations have admired since it was built in 1893. Dr. West conveyed it to James and Bessye Cummings in 1943, and since 1979 it has belonged to Ivan Huffer. Ivan's lovely antiques do justice to the spacious interior. Originally the property included the house behind it, which began as the carriage house to the main dwelling, bu twas converted to a personal dwelling early in its history.
Lot 32: South of a county road that used to pass there, now part of RR property. Just north of mill property (1855 C. F. Wenner, 1883, B. P. Crampton &Co.) Lots 48, 49, 50: (1919 Hyman Werntz.) Lot 50 extends to comer of present "B" Street, where there was in 1791 a "still house." Lot 45: Corner West Potomac and Maryland Avenue (1906 V. Kaplon.)
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Lot 42: 1888 W. L. Gross
15 South Maryland Avenue
Lot 41: 1892 Gross Store
The first part of the brick dwelling at 15 South Maryland Avenue was built around 1840. Its walls are two feet thick, solid brick, according to AnneLynn Gross, granddaughter of William Lynch Gross, who acquired the house in 1888 from John G. Thomas. It is still in the Gross family.
Lot 40: Across tracks from Gross Store ("Judge Jordan," "Flynn's Store.") Lot 39: Second lot across tracks (1850 M. E. Church)
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