Capt. Henry E. Sewall House - Credit: Wikimedia Commons
Capt. Henry E. Sewall House - Credit: Wikimedia Commons
The Capt. Henry E. Sewall House is an historic wooden house now located in Indian RiverSide Park in Jensen Beach, in Martin County, Florida. Local pioneer and developer Capt. Henry E. Sewall built it in 1889Historic Palm Beach County, Frontier Days- Local History 1873 – 1893, November 1889 at the southern tip of Sewall's Point, the peninsula and town which bear his family name. When Capt. Sewall became the postmaster of Sewall's Point, the house served also as the Sewall's Point post office. Next to the house Capt. Sewall also built a freight dock that extended into the St. Lucie River along with a storage building at its end.Writer, Bob, Historic house in Jensen Beach to stay put till summer, tcpalm.com, December 21, 2007Hutchinson, Janet, compiler, and Paige, Emeline K., editor, History of Martin County, 1975, p. 119, reprinted 1987, Port Salerno, Florida: Florida Classics Library Read more on Wikipedia
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