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On the corner of what is now First Street and Severn Avenue is the oldest house in [[Eastport]]. For nearly 100 years, it belonged to the Williams family.<ref name="EWT7">Eastport Walking Tour Sign #7</ref>
 
Jonas and Louisa Williams and their eight children moved herethere in 1876. They used the first floor as a grocery store, selling homemade sauerkraut to neighbors. After
she was widowed, Louisa offered her front parlor as a school and a polling place. The house stayed in the family until 1972.<ref name="EWT7" />