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Town Center Plan
January 2007
Appendix 2
2. Page - Ferrell House
116 Page Street
Morrisville’s oldest standing
home was built before the
town was founded. It was part
of the expansive plantation
of Williamson
Page who
purchased the property around
1830. Beneath the unusual
two-storyell isacellar revealing
hand-hewn, pit sawn sills and
joists. This heavy construction
suggests this was the oldest part of house.
In 1861, Williamson’s son, Malcus, joined other local men to fight in
the Civil War. Their company organized on the Page’s lawn and became
Company I, 6th North Carolina State Troops.
The Page family hid in the basement during the Civil War skirmish and
the house appears to have suffered some damage
to the east chimney. Afterwards it was occupied
by Union soldiers.
In the 1880s, Malcus became Register of Deeds
for Wake County and sheriff serving for twenty
years until 1906. The house was remodeled in
1876 with an ornate sawn work front porch.
The detached kitchen and slave quarters that
once stood behind house were destroyed in the
Twentieth Century.
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Photo by Ernest Dollar
Image courtesy of Mary Page Ferrell