Abstract:
Charles Clawson, born in Sweden, and Mary O'Donovan, born in Ireland, met and married in Beaufort, NC in the late 19th-century. They raised a family of six and started a prosperous business, Clawson's Grocery and Bakery. The business closed in 1934, and the building passed through several owners. The building was purchased in the late 1970s and opened as Clawson's Restaurant, one of Carteret County's most popular eating establishments.