I admit, when I travel I do enjoy visiting the tourist spots – you know, those places that are famous (or infamous) that everyone wants to see at least once in their life. This is JFK with his son, John-John holding a toy airplane. My favorite of the life-sized statues of all the US Presidents found throughout downtown Rapid City, SD.
The Ontario House was again destroyed by fire on May 4, 1943, and the location of so much jollity is now well underwater due to lakeshore erosion. Though the crowd was smaller than anticipated, they nevertheless consumed ten bushels of clams, ten bushels of corn, sweet potatoes, chicken and blue-fish “which were cooked in the big box with steam from a ten-horsepower threshing engine.” (D&C, )ĭance parties were popular in the 1920s but the effects of the Depression led to a decline in business. In September 1895, members of the Ontario Gun Club attended a clam bake at the Ontario House, following a day of contests. All the hotels and a score of the cottages were occupied, and the population had swelled to 2,000. The Democrat and Chronicle of August 13, 1898, reported that the season at Troutburg was unusually lively. Summer cottages were built in the vicinity. The Cady House on the east side of County Line Road also catered to guests. A much larger hotel of the same name, which included a dance pavilion, was ready to welcome guests by June 1891.Ĭrowds flocked to the area. The Ontario House was destroyed by fire in November 1890. The following notice published in the Saturday, July 7, 1888, Rochester Democrat and Chronicle described its attractions: Lee’s Hotel” and later, the Ontario House, it comprised a large house, picnic grounds and a stable large enough for sixty horses. Originally known as The Lee House or “Mrs. Lee developed the first resort area in Troutburg in the 1860s. Hiram Redmond ran a fishing station and built a hotel for fishermen. Trout and sturgeon were packed in ice and shipped to New York City. Named for its once abundant trout supply, this hamlet which straddles the Orleans/Monroe County line was the site of a fishing station in the 1840s, with a pier for fishing boats. Troutburg, on the eastern end of the Town of Kendall, was a popular destination for several decades after the Civil War. In the years after the Civil War, shoreline resorts sprang up to accommodate the “summer people.” Constricted by layers of clothing and lacking air conditioning, it is not surprising that city and suburban residents sought relief from the heat. KENDALL – The cooling breezes off Lake Ontario are refreshing on hot summer days. Troutburg’s popular Ontario House Hotel is shown in the late 1800s.īy Catherine Cooper, Orleans County Historian
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