Donald B. Inman (1879-1961) was born in North Carolina and living at this address when he enlisted for WWI in November 1917. He was made a 1st Lieutenant of Sanitary Company, then Captain, and finally a Major of Sanitary Company. He served overseas from March 1918 to April 1919 and was still in service at war’s end. He was assigned to the Surgeon General’s Office in Washington, DC on October 8, 1919 and then returned to Havre de Grace.

Major Donald Inman and his wife, India Inman (1880-1970), ran a grocery store 551 Fountain Street for about 35 years in the 1930s and 1940s. At the corner of Freedom Lane and Fountain Street in the 1930s and 1940s, it was called Inman’s Grocery Store and in 1938 they advertised “fresh and smoked meats; fresh fruits and vegetables; home-killed chickens.” The Inmans sold that store in 1948.

This residence is the east side of a double house built by the Gambrill family in 1904 (along with other houses nearby) for workers at their nearby Gambrill & Melville Mills, which had opened in 1899 on Fountain Street. The first owner of this home was Elizabeth Billingslea who was still the owner in 1917 when Donald Inman lived here. Elizabeth sold the home to Eda B. Cole in 1919. When Eda Cole died in 1936 she left this property in trust for her granddaughter, Aileen Cole (1920-1978), later Aileen Barclay. In 1983, after Aileen Barclay died, ownership descended to her two grandsons, John and Dennis Barclay. In 1983 John Barclay sold the house to Nancy C. Hankins who had three children, Robert, Joseph and Rebecca Hankins.

In 2019, Nancy Hankins sold the home to BEHB LLC, who completely renovated the home, inside and outside. BEHB LLC then sold it to William J. Nash and Samantha Brown.

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Built 1930. 1484 sq ft, 2 baths, no basement, 2640 sq ft lot.