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TWO UNIQUE HISTORIC PROPERTIES
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This old gabled roof Caribbean-style home, with its unique position on the west end of Front Street facing Taylor’s Creek and Beaufort Inlet to the south and Gallant’s Channel and Piver’s Island to the west, has had a front-row seat to 
centuries of Beaufort, NC history.
During the Civil War, William Duncan and his family, refusing to take the oath of allegiance to the Union, were provided transportation "beyond the lines." It is believed they went to the Nelson's Garbacon Creek plantation, hiding many valuables before they left.
The Duncan House was the first house to be plaqued. In 1962
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What is now known as The Pecan Tree Inn sits on a lot deeded to the Franklin Masonic Lodge in 1866 by Rebecca Piggott.
Hugh Jones converted the Lodge into his private residence in 1900, adding five bedrooms and three beautiful Victorian porches. It is believed that the Jones house was the first in Beaufort to have gas lighting, indoor plumbing and a telephone.
Being one of the larger buildings in Beaufort, NC, the Franklin Lodge doubled as a schoolhouse. Subsequent years saw it used for Sunday school, a tea house, a doctor's office and an apartment house.
In 1992, Joe and Susan Johnson
restored and transformed this unique Beaufort landmark into the Pecan Tree Inn. For several years the inn has been owned and operated by Allison and David Dubuisson.
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Eddy and Barbara Myers have lived in Beaufort for years. Barbara's roots, however, go back to Peter Piver, Sr., a French Huguenot who came from England in 1709 and bought property in the new settlement called Fishtowne - at the western end of present-day Beaufort.
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