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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMQPV_first-mobile-home_Tangier-VA.html
The former Noble Dise Store was replaced with the island's first mobile home in 1959.
Manufactured homes remain popular today, but require a community-wide effort to move one into place after being delivered to the island by barge.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMQPU_methodist-parsonage_Tangier-VA.html
The Methodist Parsonage, the home of the resident Reverend and his family, was erected in 1887. It is the only house on the island with a basement and the first to have an indoor bathroom.
It was the first house to have chain link fence, starti…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMQJ9_gladstone-memorial-health-center_Tangier-VA.html
Dr. Charles Gladstone (1880 - 1968) was Tangier's longest serving doctor. He arrived in 1918 and was always on call. Monthly, he would go door-to-door to collect his flat fee of $1.50 but would accept whatever the family could afford. This monthly…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMQJ8_the-double-six_Tangier-VA.html
The Double Six Sandwich Shop is where the watermen meet at 3:00 AM for "smokes and coffee" before heading down to the docks to the day's work.
Named for the game of Dominos, the shop is open for sandwiches year-round, and was often considered a…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMQJ7_former-site-of-new-testament-congregation_Tangier-VA.html
In 1946, this building served as the first meeting place of the New Testament Congregation. It was vandalized several times during a rather contentious time in the island's religious history, a story reported in Newsweek, 1947.
Throughout the y…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMQG0_ice-cream-stand_Tangier-VA.html
This is the site of the island's only unsolved murder. Charles C. "Bud" Connorton, the Town Sergeant, was eating in an earlier building here when he was fatally shot through an open window. His assailant was never identified.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMQFZ_tangier-harbor_Tangier-VA.html
Mailboat Harbor replaced Steamboat Harbor in the 1930's as the age of steamboats came to a close. The harbor was first dredged in 1922, from the Eastern side. In 1967, the harbor was dredged through to the Western side of the island. This was a co…