Peninsula In Passage

That storm also claimed the Nansemond Club House, built about 1920 near a watch house on the Nansemond bar off Cedar Point County Club, and the Holland Club House. The Holland river house, not far from the Ballard house, was completed in August 1933. Owner Reginald Holland managed to spend a single night there before the hurricane swept the cottage from its pilings and sent it crashing into the bridge.

John H. Sheally II

Top left: Robert Hall Ballard’s boat at the Ballard/Sims river house

Far bottom left: Robert Hall Ballard

Bottom middle left: Bonnie and John Sims

Left: Party time at the Ballard river house.

Above: Dorothy Davis with a painting of her river house.

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