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Nettie (with glasses) in a group that includes future Caroline Commercial
County Commissioner Charles Dean Sr. at the beach. He worked
for her "squiring" guests around the resort. or Residential
Call me for all

The same local newspaper gave glowing reviews aft er Virginia your Real Estate
and Nettie completed a remodel of the Colonial Hotel in 1915, needs.
calling the lodging "attractive" and "homelike" in an endorse-
ment for the coming vacation months. 410-924-4807
It is a wonder that she found time to be courted by suitors but
Dean did marry Charles Carter in 1917. A newspaperman,
scholar, and political activist cut from the mold of Th eodore
Roosevelt, Carter would assist her in hotel ownership in Mary-
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land and Florida as well as for a time work out of Washington,
110 Market Street
DC -- which allowed Nettie to continue her efforts in political Mike Shipley Denton, MD 21629

circles in Annapolis and also the nation's capital. They had no 410-479-0777

children together but she helped raise Carter's three kids from mshipley55@comcast.net
a previous marriage.
Upon her husband's death in 1943, Nettie Dean Carter sold the

Colonial Hotel. It remained a fixture of the boardwalk, between constantly on the go and with multiple irons in the fi re. Our
First and Second Street, into the 1970s before being replaced native daughter, media darling, and tourism pioneer died in

by a modern condominium complex. Easton at age 72 after several years of declining health includ-
ing the aftermath of an auto accident in South Carolina that

Nettie Dean Carter maintained her Caroline connections totaled the Carter family vehicle. Her funeral service was held
throughout her life, never claiming anywhere other than at the Methodist Church in Ridgely; she is buried at the Denton
Ridgely as her home and permanent residence despite being Cemetery.

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