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1908 Plat Map list of Cottagers & Property Owners West Shore  


This is probably an incomplete listing probably of cottage lots and owners - but this is what was listed on the plat map of 1908 and what I am able to decipher of it. I hope to connect everything from the 1876 plat map forward but that will take time and much more research - in hopes of making an accurate history and genealogy of the lake and along the way gathering pictures, maps, stories, myths, legends, biographies, obitauries etc. to enhance it.

None of these listings are eteched in stone - it is probably just a pratial listing from sources during this time period - and based on known facts of 1908, on the plat map - everything may change if I can ever get the use of some of the abstracts or cottagers step forth with corrected data.

I will try and carry this data forward to each of the plat maps if I can connect from this one to the next.

Hopefully from deeds, abstracts and future research we can list the complete property owners at this time.
 
 

reading south to North


1880 - J. Farrar 35.95A [Josiah Farrar]
1898 - J. Farrar 24.70A & 13.30A [Josiah Farrar]
1908 - Josiah Farrar

1880 - A. J. Harris (possibly a corner of his property comes within the lake edge)
Subdivided down to:1898 - N. Walley - 40A
1898 - Thomas Houghton 86.64A
1898 - H. J. Murry 26.08A
1908 - J. H. Murray 26.08A [John H. Murry]
             Property that borders lake of this acreage is labeled: Murray's Subdivision

1880 - J. Green 83.47A [James Green ]- Green Genealogy
When he first came to the west shore of Lake Maxinkuckee where Long Point is located, there was no one established there. He bought all the land between Maxinkuckee and the little lake, including all of Long Point, the gravel pit property and adjacent acreage. - - The original Green homestead is still standing to this day, but not on its first site. It is now on the rise of the ground between the two lakes. The house originally stood close to the lake where the railroad right-of-way is now. We are told that the railroad came through in such a hurry, moving northward to terminate as while at Marmont Station that construction work had reached the house before the movers could get it moved. In fact, the tracks came pretty close to being laid right under the house, which was hurriedly moved out of the way and back on the hill where it now stands, today untenanted. - - When James Green settled at the southern base of Long Point and for a considerable period thereafter, he did not anticipate that his waterfront property would at some future date be in such demand by prospective summer cottagers as to command rich prices. So it was that, before the great in rush of the "lake people", he without ado and complacently thinking his deals successful sold good-sized lots to folks for about fifty dollars apeice. Some he almost gave away. His son got one for doing some extra chores. It was not so many years later that those self same "cheap" lots were in great demand for prices ranging into the thousands. - - On Long Point in the 'seventies, James Green had twenty acres of land left, and between the two lakes 83.47 acres. - One Townships Yesteryears
1898 - J. G. & J. Green 55.60A
1908 - James Green [reaches to the Little Lake] 68.96


Have not found this section of the Long Point area on a map as yet with any detailing on it; these are the sections for: 1898:

Also note this map labels an area south of Hawk Lake, Lost Lake or Little Maxinkuckee as a pond area - the following post card was labeled "a peacful pond near Lake Maxinkuckee".


Note that this 1898 map gives the approximate location of the Arlington flag stop as it was called.

Knapp [Anthony J. Knapp]

Arlington Hotel & Annex  



Long Point - also known as Rochester Point

J. Green [James Green] was to have owned all of Long Point at one time]

In 1903 Long Point in its entirety was offered for sale at $2,500 for development!
In the 23 July 1903 Culver Citizen was found this ad:

Long Point for Sale


Long Point, the most beautiful and desireable for residences, hotel or educational institution on Maxinkuckee Lake is for sale at a bargin. Enquire of Daniel Mc Donald at his cottage south end of lake or to the owner.

Milo R. Smith
Rochester, In.

 

reading from the South going North


Long Point - reading from the South going North
1898 - South Pt. Long Point
1908 - Not shown

1908 Long Green's
Lot 1
Lot 2
Lot 3
Lot 4
Lot 5
Lot 6
Lot 7
Lot 8
Lot 9
Lot 10
Lot 11
Lot Number Eleven (11) in James Green's Plat of Long Point in Lot Three (3) of Section Twenty-One (21) and Lot One (1) of Section Twenty-eight (28), In township Thirty-two (32) North Range One (1) East, Situate in Union Township Marshall County, Indiana.
Lot 12

Point Plat
1880 - ?Lot 3? - G. Ab___
1898 - M. R. Smith 32A
1908 - Camden Club
Lot no name & number
Lot no name & number
Lot no name & number
Lot no name & number
Mc Sheehey
G. W. Bussous

1880 - Lot 2 - A. Shepherd etal?
     John Green
1898 - Rochester Club
1908 - Rochester Club Grounds
Was abandoned in 1895. The club was said to have been still standing 1905 when converted to a double cottage.
1878-9 - Rochester Club

In 1878-9 ....About the same time several Rochester people formed a club and erected a clubhouse on Long point, on the west side of the lake, and occupied it with considerable irregularity for several years. The club went out of existence many years ago, but the club house still stands and has been remodeled into a double cottage, which is occupied by private families during the summer seasons. The Rochester people were the pioneers in discovering the beauties of Long point, being the first to erect a building there. For that reason for many years it was called "Rochester point," and even yet many of the early comers about the lake call it by that name.

History of Marshall County Indiana (1908) Daniel Mc Donald pg. 100

Triangle behind Rochester Club and Chadwicks Amen Plat
1880 - J. Green 20A [James Green]
1898 - M. R. Smith 32A [Milo R. Smith]
              J. Green [James Green]
1908 - S. S. Chadwick - hotel [Stephen S. Chadwick]

1880 - J. Green 20A [James Green]
1898 - M. R. Smith 32A [Milo R. Smith]
1908 - Chadwicks Amen Sub.
Reading from South to around the Point and back West
Lot 1
Lot 2
Lot 3
Lot 4
Lot 5
Lot 6
Lot 7
Lot 8
Lot 9 - Chadwick Hotel Easement to Lake
Lot 10
Lot 11
Lot 12
Lot 13
Lot 14
Lot 15

The lot or lots behind the point changed from plat map to plat map in size and shape:
1880 - J. Green [James Green]
1898 - J. Green [James Green]

1880 - C. Filer - 32.40A
1898 - B. Easterday 38.40A
                M. Grubbs Small lot off Northeast corner 1908 - Harvey Easterday (laying west side of the railroad)

1880 - J. Filer 10A
1898 - M. Grubbs 10A
1908 - Harvey Easterday

1908 - Grubb [laying on the west side of the railroad]

1908 - Holt Ice Company

1906 D. R. Trope & V. A. Simondson President and cashier of a bank in DOwner's Grove, Illinois was having a cottage built in April 1906 on Long Point