Fire burns down house owned by North Carolina Maritime Museum

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Fire burns down house owned by North Carolina Maritime Museum

BEAUFORT, N.C. (WNCT) — The Ward-Hancock house in Beaufort burned down on Tuesday night. The house, owned by the North Carolina Maritime Museum on their Gallants Channel property, was believed to have been built by a local carpenter in the late 1700s. It's had multiple owners over the last hundred years, getting its official name in 1850. In 2010, the Beaufort Women's Club donated the house to the Maritime Museum. Now, David Bennett, curator of …