By Bill Leutz I recently had the opportunity to look at two old title abstracts for property on Lake View (West) Drive. These abstracts were for the two lots owned by Eben ‘Dick’ Swain – my sister’s father-in-law. Within these abstracts, I was surprised to find...
If you’ve ever had a daydream about expanding Clark Lake’s waters beyond the current shoreline, you should find this real-life story fascinating. In the 1940s William Keast purchased three cottages and a farm house on 90 acres of land on the south side of...
More than you might think. And, of course, it’s South Pacific, the musical, that got Clark Lake’s attention in multiple ways. In 1963 the Clark Lake Players moved due south from Pleasant View to the pavilion at Eagle Point. The space previously been a...
by Bill Leutz Ray Greene was a boat builder active in Toledo, Ohio from 1936-1975. Many of us on Clark Lake are very familiar with two of his designs, the 12-foot Nipper, and the 16-foot Rebel sailboat. Greene began his company in 1936 with a two-man daysailer called...
For decades, St. Rita Chapel stood near Kentucky Point. Today St. Rita’s is located on the southwest corner of Jefferson and Hayes Roads. In 1968 Margaret Bendele bought the original wooden structure and had it moved. In this video she tells the story of...
Over the last few months, tokens bearing the name of Eagle Point Hotel have surfaced. First to make it to this website was a token owned by Bob Fish. He explained that his mother worked at the hotel in the 1950s and he found it among her belongings. Pam Chmiel has...
by Bill Leutz Most current residents of Brooklyn and Clark Lake probably know very little about a town that once existed between them; the town of Jefferson. I have talked to younger acquaintances who have grown up on Clark Lake who have never heard of it. This is not...
Two recent articles on this website revealed that Rollo Every, as proprietor of the Eagle Point Hotel, was in the minting business. He apparently created tokens that were given out to be redeemed at the resort. Bob Fish found one of the 5-cent pieces in his...
Recently this website reported that Rollo Every, proprietor of the Eagle Point Hotel, minted his own coins, apparently for the use of hotel guests. Bob Fish found one of these five-cent pieces among his mother’s belongings and donated it to the Clark Lake...
Is it possible that in addition to owning and managing the Eagle Point Hotel and Resort, Rollo was also in the minting business? There is something to this. Recently found was a five-cent token given out to be redeem at the hotel. The five-cent piece was discovered...
by Bill Leutz In previous articles we have looked at the histories of some of the first settlers at Clark’s Lake. I thought it might be interesting to look at what was happening in the bigger picture of Northeastern America; the events that delayed the development of...
One of the goals of this website is to keep count of all things Clark Lake, and there is an entire section devoted to it: Vital Statistics. Keeping track at Clark Lake is not a new thing. In 1959 Bowser Eagy started the Boat Count. The count continued but after his...
