Beverly is a historic home located in Pocomoke City, Worcester County,

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. It is a -story,

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brick house built about 1770. The house faces the Pocomoke River. An original circular ice house survives on the property. Beverly was listed on the

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in 1975. Littleton Dennis, great great grandson of John Dennis of Beverly England, died in 1774 before the house was finished but work went on and was completed by his widow Susanna Upshur Dennis and their children and their descendants lived in the house for nearly 150 years.″Homes of the Cavaliers″ By Katherine Scarborough. Tidewater Publishers Cambridge Maryland 1930,1969 P.382-392.

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*, including photo from 1988, at Maryland Historical Trust Houses in Worcester County, Maryland Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Maryland Houses completed in 1770 Georgian architecture in Maryland National Register of Historic Places in Worcester County, Maryland 1770 establishments in Maryland {{WorcesterCountyMD-NRHP-stub