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Town Center Plan
January 2007
Appendix 2
103 S. Page Street
When Samuel Horne built a knitting mill in Morrisville the Town’s
quickly expanding workforce needed housing. William and Fanny
Penny, owners of the house that would later come to be known as
the Ellis Rooming House, were quick to meet the need. In 1910,
their tenants included newlyweds James and Bessie Gunley, Betting
Stallings, age 15, and Sallie Myals, age 20. All were presumably hard
at work in the mill and likely sent part of their wages back to families
on farms.
While some of the mill workers rented rooms from the Pennys, others
lived in small houses built for them by Horne.
The Ellis Rooming House has experienced some cosmetic changes,
including the removal of its two-story front porch, but it retains much
of its original interior features.
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7. Ellis Rooming House
Photo by Ernest Dollar