The next stop on this amazing tour is 520 West Main Street, now known as the Grist-Rodman House.
This was the the location of Washington's most celebrated ship yard owner and builder, a freed slave named Hull Anderson.
Anderson was born in 1784 and owned by William Orr.
He learned to caulk ships, making ships watertight, as a boy on the Rope Walk Plantation owned by Samuel Durden.
In 1809 Orr gave his slaves Hannah, Sam, Hull, Andrew (his brother) and Little Hannah to Sally Anderson…
