In 1826 Charles Drew, Shipbuilder, constructed his house 100 yards from the bridge at the Bluefish River, near his father's shipyard. To this house he brought his bride Hannah. He died ten years later, leaving Hannah with four small children and the neccesity of selling the house to Zenas Faunce. In its central site opposite the Duxbury Bank, at the juncture of Washington Street, Powder Point , the Drew house was to become a general store. In 1916 Clara May Smith Ripley, granddaughter of Charles Drew purchased and presented the house to the Duxbury Rural and Historical Society. It now houses their administrative offices and has been returned to it's former original respectability as a comfortable old house.