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Estate of Joseph Stanley For more than 200 years, residents and visitors passing in and out of New Hope, PA along Old York Road have scene a handsome high-walled mansion on the hill. Built between 1816 and 1823, Cintra was the dream of William Maris, a romantic and financially reckless entrepreneur who modeled his grand residence on a Portuguese castle of the same name. For twenty-three years, the interior of the New [...] Click here to continue reading. Thomas A. Gray Tom Gray of Old Salem, North Carolina is an heir of the R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company family fortune. A graduate of the Winterthur program in Early American Culture, Tom curated the corporate collection of the R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company. He partnered with his mother, Anne Pepper Gray, to found the Old Salem Toy Museum. Gray has a long association with the Old Salem Inc. historic restoration, including vice president [...] Click here to continue reading. David Dixon Porter, Admiral USN (1813-1891) Born at Chester, Pennsylvania, June 8, 1813, the son of David and Evelina Anderson Porter. David Dixon Porter married Georgie Ann Patterson, March 10, 1839 and they had ten children, including Lieutenant Colonel Carlile Patterson Porter. He was commissioned Lieutenant, U.S. Navy, 1841, and commanded a landing party of 70 seamen and captured Fort Tabasco, Mexico, in 1847; he commanded the steamer Panama, 1849, and made a voyage [...] Click here to continue reading. Samuel Adams (American, 1722 to 1803) Born in 1722, Patriot Sam Adams gained fame as being the chief agitator of the Boston Tea Party. He served as a tax collector in Boston from 1756 to 1764 and from 1765 to 1774 was a member of the Massachusetts legislature. Adams organized resistance to the British Stamp Act in 1765 and founded the Boston Committee of Correspondence in 1772. He was a delegate to the First [...] Click here to continue reading. |
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