Up front it appears to be a typical Cape Cod home, but in back an addition is incongruous. It's about halfway between the Government Dock and the Hope Town Sailing Club. Stay on the east fork where the road branches, and it's on your left. Widowed Wyannie came from Charleston, South Carolina around 1785 with her four children. She was enthusiastic, determined, and certainly courageous.
Exhibits depict life in the original settlement, wrecking, sponging, hurricanes, and shipbuilding.
There are tape recordings of reminiscences of older Hope Town residents, old tools and utensils. For history lovers, Hope Town is a delight to visit in other ways as well. Loyalists from New England founded this settlement in the 1780's . You will find descendants of these original families still among Hope Town's most prominent citizens-the Malone's, the Russel's, and the Albury's. You will still find scattered evidence of the old way of doing things.