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There seems little information available on Sodus Bay but I include it because it was important enough for the Trolley to build a line all the ways there -- and the Trolley carried mostly 'people' -- Just multiple small hotels/resorts/attractions ? I would make individual pages for any resort that was also known as possibly an 'amusement park' but do not have enough information.

I read in some old Trolley literature that the Trolley planned a 'large resort' here. Maybe it was never built.

Sodus Bay Yacht Club recognized by the local community as a major tourist attraction. A promotional piece provides the following quote "Visitors are cordially welcomed to the spacious club home of the Sodus Bay Yacht Club on the south shore of Sand Point. This organization is largely drawn from western New York. The club house is a rendezvous for the members and their families from all points of the Bay. A commodious dancing pavilion, greatly enjoyed by the members, has been a recent addition."

Margaretta Grove, given recently to Sodus Point for a pleasure ground by Mrs. E.H. Harriman, formerly a summer resident, and a property owners at the Point, shaded by branching oaks and sturdy chestnuts, is a popular resort for picnic parties.

It is well adapted for outings, being reached by carriage or auto from the mainland, the Northern Central Station, and the Rochester and Sodus Bay Trolley R.R.

At the Salt Works, not far from the Grove, salt was developed as early as 1831. Sodus is rich in material resources, native deposits of iron being used for the early forge.

Sodus, six miles from the Point by trolley, is a banner village of the United States for the production and marketing of evaporated apples. It also boasts the unique distinction, of having the finest Opera House of any village of its size in the country. The Rochester and Sodus Bay trolley follows along part of that pioneer highway - "The Ridge Road, once the pebbly beach of the pre-historic lake extending to Lewiston. And in the leafy month of June, when all the world's astir, the "Apple Blossom Ride" from Rochester to Sodus Bay is a fragrant memory.

Wayne County has no peer in the Northwestern tier of counties of the proud Empire State.

POINT CHARLES

Overhead, the gulls wheel and dip in their untiring flight, as one enters Great Sodus Bay from Lake Ontario.

Sheltered by its friendly breakwater, from the encroaching gales of the inland sea, lies Point Charles, immortalized by the master hand of the novelist, J. Fennimore Cooper, in "The Last of the Mohicans."

This resort, owned by a private syndicate, the summer neighbors of many years, is situated at the extremity of a long peninsula jutting out from the Township of Huron on the main land, a pebbly barrier between lake and bay.

The old Dutch windmill, owned by Mrs. Rev. John Harding, of Utica, adds a picturesque feature to this charming retreat, with its many pleasant cottages, trim lawns, and tennis court.

THE BLUFF

Cool, restful, the chestnut groves of The Bluff, are a joy to the incoming tourists on the boat. This resort, with its wide outlook over lake, Crescent Beach and bay, is located on a high bluff, rising precipitously from the lake shore. Hay fever is said to be completely cured by a sojourn in the pure air of this favored locality.

BONNICASTLE AND RESORT

Lummisville, or by its more modern name, Bonnicastle, commands a noble view of the bay. It is a favorite camping ground for picnics and family reunions, as well as the site of the annual Encampment of the Veterans of Wayne County. Camp fires are lit, speakers of note are engaged, and the boats are crowded with passengers.

A lass of high degree, may point to Lummisville as her ancestral home. For there lived Mrs. Jerome, the mother of the bright, brainy American girl, who became a powerful factor in English political and social life - Lady Randolph Churchill, now Mrs. Cornwallis West.

A gifted neighbor of Mrs. Jerome, was the authoress, Mrs. Elizabeth Lummis Ellet, grand-daughter of General Maxwell. Married before she was seventeen to Doctor William H. Ellet, professor of chemistry in Columbia College, New York, her life was devoted to study and journalistic work.

A poem on her birthplace, Sodus Bay, was published in "Poems, Original and Translated, 1835." This loving tribute to the home of her childhood, opens with the following stanza: