Historic Sodus Point
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Arundell
Doville Ship Building
Rogers Ship Building
Steamboat Ontario at Troupville
Steamboats on Sodus Bay
Steamship Era
Vessels Built in our Area
Wickhams Marine List
Wrnkle Yacht – 1913
Area Mills
Boat Mail Delivery on Sodus Bay
The Building of Sodus Point
Early Salt Trade
Early Transportation
Fishing in Sodus Point
Ice Harvesting
Iron Ore Dock
Railroad and Coal Trestle
Coal Trestle
Coal Trestle Workers
Henry Zerbe
Pennsy RR Elmira Branch
Railroad
The Railroad That Never Was
E. H. Harriman and the Railroad
Tragic Train Wreck of 1901
Railroad Yard
Maritime Occupations and Sailors
Owen P. Merrill – Trials and Tribulations of being a Sodus Point Sailor
Maritime Occupations
Sodus Point Sailors 1854 – 1914
Sodus Canal
Trolley
Timeline
1400s
1450
Native American Fishing Mural
1700s
1759
French and Indian War Interpretive Panel
1794
Sodus Point – Founded in 1794
1800s
1808
Slaves in Sodus Point
1813
Battle of Sodus Point Mural
1820s
1825
Sodus Bay Lighthouse
1826
James Fenimore Cooper
Shakers At Sodus Bay
1835
Ice Harvesting
1856
Underground Railroad in Sodus Point Mural
1870
Lighthouse Mural
1880s
1881
E. H. Harriman
1884
Coal Trestle
1890s
1890
Steamship Era Mural
1893
Sodus Bay Yacht Club
1899
Fish Pirates
1900s
1900
Trolley
1910s
1910
Guided tour of Sodus Point in the early 1900s
1919
Prohibition
1929
Viking Spear Head
1924
Sodus Bay Heights Golf Club
1938
Malt House
1940s
1940
Sodus Point Lakers
1944
WW II Sodus Point P.O.W Camp
1958
Sands Points Amusement Park
1965
Sodus Point 1965
1986
Sodus Pt. Fish & Crab House
2000s
2010
Charter Boats Mural
2013
Summer Storms – 2013
Slavery
Underground Railroad in Local History
Dr. William Darby Cooke
How the Freedom Seekers got to Sodus Point
Jacob Buys
African Americans in Sodus
Civil War Letter from James A. Potter
Maxwell Settlement
Courageous Women of Maxwell Settlement
African Americans in Sodus and Wayne County
Freedom Hill
Underground Railroad in Sodus Point
More Underground RR in Sodus Point
The Newport Family
Sodus Point Tunnel
The Sodus Point Tunnel
The Sodus Point Tunnel Revealed?
Underground Railroad Poems
Sodus Point Memories
Coal Trestle Fire Videos
Coal Trestle Fire – 11/11/1971
Coal Trestle Fire 2 – 11/11/1971
Dannys Superette
The Day our Village was Born
Dredging (2018)
Families
Deborah Hopkins (Hopkins / DoVille Families)
Doug Stark (50s – 60s)
Fishing
Fishing Charts (1930 – 1950)
Fish Pirates
Happy Days
Migrant Workers
Mrs. DoVille’s Ice Cream Cones
Myths and Folklore
British Pay Ship
Christian Holler
James Fenimore Cooper
Prohibition
Santiago de Sodus Point
Sodus Bay Social Club
Sodus Point Lakers
Sodus Point 1965
Swimming the Channel
Summer Storms – 2013
People
Swales Family
Colonel Peregrine Fitzhugh
Peregrine Fitzhugh Letters
Jefferson Letters
Fitzhugh to Jefferson (Letter 1)
Fitzhugh to Jefferson (Letter 2)
Jefferson to Fitzhugh (Letter 3)
Fitzhugh to Jefferson (Letter 4)
Jefferson to Fitzhugh (Letter 5)
Fitzhugh to Jefferson (Letter 6)
Fitzhugh to Jefferson (Letter 7)
Fitzhugh to Jefferson (Letter 8)
Jefferson to Fitzhugh (Letter 9)
Fitzhugh to Jefferson (Letter 10)
Peregrine Fitzhugh Letters (Introduction)
Washington Letters
Washington to Fitzhugh (Letter 1)
Fitzhugh to Washington (Letter 2)
Fitzhugh to Washington (Letter 3)
Fitzhugh to Washington (Letter 4)
Colonel Peregrine Fitzhugh (His Story)
Celebrities
Asher Warner
Arch Merrill
Captain William Wickham
E. H. Harriman
Elizabeth F. Lummis Ellet
Henry DoVille, Sr.
Captain Charles T. DoVille
Hobos in Sodus Point
James Fenimore Cooper
Austin Steward
Maps
Troupville – 1810
1829 Map of Wayne County Showing Roads
1857 Chart of Sodus Bay
1974 Annotated Sodus Bay Map
Other
Coal Trestle to Close
Coal Ship Coming Into the Bay
Fire Fighters – Our Hometown Heroes
French Fort on Sodus Bay?
History of Eagle Island
Horse Powered Boat
Islands in Sodus Bay
Kallusch Boat Builders
Lotus Flowers in Sodus Bay
Native Americans in Sodus Bay
The Story of the Sailing Ship Lotus
Secretary of State John Foster Dulles
Sodus Bay Heights & the King of France
Plaques
Plaques…
1812 Peace Garden Plaque
Asher Warner Plaque
Black Community Plaque / Marker
Captain Wickham Plaque
Coal Trestle Plaque
Lighthouse Keeper’s House Plaque
Old Sodus Lighthouse Plaque
Robert Trent Jones, Sr. Plaques
Trolley
Underground RR
World War 1 Memorial
WW II POW Camp Plaque
Interpretive Panels…
1812 Peace Garden Interpretive Panel
Cobblestone Interpretive Panel
French and Indian War Interpretive Panel
SEAWAY Trails War of 1812 British Raids
Buildings
Bed and Breakfast
Maxwell Creek Cobblestone House (1952)
Maxwell Creek Inn B & B (now)
Silver Waters B & B
The History of the Hots Point Building
Houses
Bay Shore House
Custom House
Harriman House
Harris House
Home Comfort Cottage
Johnson House (Bay Street Hotel)
Lake Crest
Lakestones House
Mansion House
Walsh House & Boat Livery
Camp Beechwood Cobblestone Building
Churches
Catholic Church
Episcopal Church
Methodist Church
Clubs
Sodus Bay Heights Golf Club
Sodus Bay Yacht Club
Dolphin
Guild Hall
Hotels
Sodus Point Hotel Fire
Information Center
Malt House
Railroad
Railroad Roundhouse
Railroad Y and Bunk House
Schools
Community Center (former Schoolhouse)
Salt Works School House
Sodus Bay Lighthouse
Sodus Pt. Fish & Crab House
Quirky Stories
The Ghost Sailor of Charles Point
George Helfer
Ling Eaters and Other Strange Fish Presentation
Billy Boomerang
Christian Holler
First Meeting in our Town
The Horse That Drank Beer
Humour during the Battle of Sodus Point
Ling Eaters
The Murder of Jim Hall
No Name Cheese
Old Tom
The Piano in the Back of the Truck
Swordfish Caught in Sodus Bay
Turkish Goats of Garfield (Eagle) Island
Whiskey Jim
Religion & Social Movements
Christian Holler
Fourierism
Shakers At Sodus Bay
War & Battles
Battle of Sodus Point (The Music Video)
Battle of Sodus Point – War of 1812 (The Men)
Lead up to the Battle of Sodus Point
Battle of Sodus Point – War of 1812
The Other British “Invasions” of Sodus Bay
British Invasion of Sodus Point Reenactment (1994)
Civil War
Diaries of a World War 2 Sodus Point POW
Diary of Walter Meyer – Sodus Point POW Part 1
Diaries of Walter Meyer – Sodus Point POW Part 2
POWS – The human side
WW II Sodus Point P.O.W Camp
Town of Sodus Deceased Veterans Lists
The Willow Tree, the Cannon Ball and the Battle of Sodus Point
Walking Tours
Narrated Sodus Point Walking Tour of Historic Plaques and Murals
Narrated Sodus Point Walking Tour of 19th Century Architecture
Guided tour of Sodus Point in the early 1900s
Locations of Historic Plaques and Murals
Self Guided Tour Brochure of Historic Sodus Point
Murals
Battle of Sodus Point Mural
Charter Boats Mural
Coal Trestle Mural
Historic Sodus Point Mural
Lighthouse Mural
Native American Fishing Mural
Steamship Era Mural
Town of Sodus Mural
Underground Railroad in Sodus Point Mural
Artifacts
1896 Signature Quilt
Maxwell Settlement Cemetery – Rediscovering Our Past
Shipwrecks
The City of Sodus Bay
Viking Spear Head
What’s New
Links
Contact Us
Blessing of the Murals
Upcoming Historic Events
Recreation
Sodus Bay Junior Sailing Association
A Day on the Bay – early 1900s
Ice Skating on the New Ice Skate Rink (2019)
The Man Who Waterskied Across the Lake
Smelting – 1950s and 1960s
Sailboat Racing – 1958
1986 Powerboat Race off of Sodus Point
Bayshore Amusement Park
Boat Marinas
Katlynn Marine
Doodle-Bug
Winter Racing on Sodus Bay
Kitesurfing
Sands Points Amusement Park
Taxi Dancing
Tobagganing
The Beauty of Sodus Point
Sodus Point in January 2019
Pier Light time lapse at night
Drone Footage
Drone Fireworks July 3 2016
Early Morning Lighthouse Drone Video
Golf Course
Fireworks on the Beach – 2017
Rainbows
Fog Horn and Pier Light
Lake Ontario
Lighthouse Concert
Sky Lanterns Launch – July 4 2015
Sodus Point – Somewhere in Time
Sunrises
October 24
November 27
Moonrises
Oct. 26
Northern Lights
Old Photos
The Day an Airplane Crashed Into Sodus Bay
Businesses
DoVille’s Ice Cream Stand – late 1940s
E A Button General Store – 1907
Gulf Stations – 1950s
Helfer’s Boat Livery – 1930s
McSnack – 1989
Nature’s Children 1987
Rexall Drug Store – 1965
Red and White Grocery- 1930s
Sodus Point Bait Shop – late 1970s
Steuerwalds Silver Dollar – 1960
The White Bakery (1940s)
Camp Beechwood
Coal Trestle
Arlene Ternoois – PRR Grease Monkey
Coal Ship Loading at the Trestle
Coal Trestle Reconstruction – 1927
Coal Trestle / John J. Rammacher – 1941
Coal Trestle and Road
Looking over the Bay
On top of the coal trestle
Pushing Cars onto the Trestle
Fire Dept
Bacorn Building Fire – February 1972
First Ambulance – 1940
Sodus Point Fire Dept. “Duck”
Flooding
Second Pier – 1906
Sodus Bay Web Cam
The Story of the Pier Lights
December 6, 2019
Houses
Recent Posts
Greig Street 1913
Northern Lights
Geraldo Rivera’s Sailboat
Davina McNaney’s Run (2015 and 2018)
First Steamboat in Sodus Bay
Hobos in Sodus Point
Is this the Sodus Point Slave Tunnel?
Trolley
Travel Back in Time to Sodus Point in the Early 1900s
What’s New?
Locations of Historic Plaques and Murals In Sodus Point
Ice Harvesting on Sodus Bay
Austin Steward
Shipwrecks Off Sodus Point
Steamship Era
James Fenimore Cooper
Sodus Bay Lighthouse Museum
Railroad Coal Trestle
Underground Railroad in Sodus Point
Battle of Sodus Point Mural
Historical Markers
Norse Spear Head
Pages
Artifacts
1896 Signature Quilt
Maxwell Settlement Cemetery – Rediscovering Our Past
Shipwrecks
The City of Sodus Bay
Viking Spear Head
Battle of Sodus Point – War of 1812 (the battle)
Blessing of the Murals
Buildings
Bed and Breakfast
Maxwell Creek Inn B & B (now)
Silver Waters B & B
Camp Beechwood Cobblestone Building
Churches
Catholic Church
Episcopal Church
Methodist Church
Clubs
Sodus Bay Heights Golf Club
Dolphin
Guild Hall
Hotels
Sodus Point Hotel Fire
Houses
Bay Shore House
Custom House
Harriman House
Harris House
Home Comfort Cottage
Johnson House (Bay Street Hotel)
Lakestones House
Mansion House
Walsh House & Boat Livery
Information Center
Lake Crest
Malt House
Railroad
Henry Zerbe
Railroad Roundhouse
Railroad Y and Bunk House
Railroad Yard
Schools
Community Center (former Schoolhouse)
Salt Works School House
Sodus Bay Lighthouse
Sodus Bay Yacht Club
Sodus Pt. Fish & Crab House
The History of the Hots Point Building
Commerce
Area Mills
Boat Mail Delivery on Sodus Bay
Early Salt Trade
Early Transportation
Fishing in Sodus Point
Ice Harvesting
Iron Ore Dock
Maritime Occupations and Sailors
Maritime Occupations
Pennsy RR Elmira Branch
Railroad and Coal Trestle
Coal Trestle
Coal Trestle Workers
Railroad
E. H. Harriman and the Railroad
Tragic Train Wreck of 1901
Schooners and Steamboats
Arundell
Doville Ship Building
Owen P. Merrill – Trials and Tribulations of being a Sodus Point Sailor
Rogers Ship Building
Steamboat Ontario at Troupville
Steamboats of Sodus Bay Info
Steamboats on Sodus Bay
Steamship Era
Wickhams Marine List
Wrnkle Yacht – 1913
Sodus Canal
Sodus Point Sailors 1854 – 1914
The Building of Sodus Point
Trolley
Vessels Built in our Area
Contact Us
Courageous Women of Maxwell Settlement
Dredging (2018)
Drone Fireworks July 3 2016
Drone Footage
Early Morning Lighthouse Drone Video
Fireworks on the Beach – 2017
Fog Horn and Pier Light
Free Trader Enrollment – 1854
Free Trader Entry of merchandise Sept 1856
Free Trader Manifest – May 3 1856
Free Trader Manifest Oct 1856
Golf Course
Guided tour of Sodus Point in the early 1900s
Historic Sodus Point Mural
Lake Ontario
Lighthouse Concert
Links
Locations of Historic Plaques and Murals
Maps
1829 Map of Wayne County Showing Roads
1857 Chart of Sodus Bay
1974 Annotated Sodus Bay Map
Troupville – 1810
Maxwell Creek Cobblestone House (1952)
Moonrises
Murals
Battle of Sodus Point Mural
Charter Boats Mural
Coal Trestle Mural
Lighthouse Mural
Native American Fishing Mural
Steamship Era Mural
Town of Sodus Mural
Underground Railroad in Sodus Point Mural
Narrated Sodus Point Walking Tour of 19th Century Architecture
Narrated Sodus Point Walking Tour of Historic Plaques and Murals
Northern Lights
Oct. 26
Old Photos
Businesses
DoVille’s Ice Cream Stand – late 1940s
E A Button General Store – 1907
Gulf Stations – 1950s
Helfer’s Boat Livery – 1930s
McSnack – 1989
Nature’s Children 1987
Red and White Grocery- 1930s
Sodus Point Bait Shop – late 1970s
Steuerwalds Silver Dollar – 1960
Camp Beechwood
Coal Ship Loading at the Trestle
Coal Trestle
Arlene Ternoois – PRR Grease Monkey
Coal Trestle / John J. Rammacher – 1941
Coal Trestle Reconstruction – 1927
Looking over the Bay
On top of the coal trestle
Pushing Cars onto the Trestle
Coal Trestle and Road
Fire Dept
Bacorn Building Fire – February 1972
First Ambulance – 1940
Sodus Point Fire Dept. “Duck”
Flooding
Recreation
A Day on the Bay – early 1900s
Sodus Bay Junior Sailing Association
Rexall Drug Store – 1965
Second Pier – 1906
Smelting – 1950s and 1960s
The Day an Airplane Crashed Into Sodus Bay
The Story of the Pier Lights
The White Bakery (1940s)
Other
Coal Ship Coming Into the Bay
Coal Trestle to Close
Fire Fighters – Our Hometown Heroes
French Fort on Sodus Bay?
History of Eagle Island
Horse Powered Boat
Islands in Sodus Bay
Kallusch Boat Builders
Lotus Flowers in Sodus Bay
Native Americans in Sodus Bay
Secretary of State John Foster Dulles
Sodus Bay Heights & the King of France
The Railroad That Never Was
The Story of the Sailing Ship Lotus
People
Arch Merrill
Asher Warner
Austin Steward
Captain Charles T. DoVille
Captain William Wickham
Celebrities
Colonel Peregrine Fitzhugh
Colonel Peregrine Fitzhugh (His Story)
Peregrine Fitzhugh Letters
Jefferson Letters
Fitzhugh to Jefferson (Letter 1)
Fitzhugh to Jefferson (Letter 10)
Fitzhugh to Jefferson (Letter 2)
Fitzhugh to Jefferson (Letter 4)
Fitzhugh to Jefferson (Letter 6)
Fitzhugh to Jefferson (Letter 7)
Fitzhugh to Jefferson (Letter 8)
Jefferson to Fitzhugh (Letter 3)
Jefferson to Fitzhugh (Letter 5)
Jefferson to Fitzhugh (Letter 9)
Peregrine Fitzhugh Letters (Introduction)
Washington Letters
Fitzhugh to Washington (Letter 2)
Fitzhugh to Washington (Letter 3)
Fitzhugh to Washington (Letter 4)
Washington to Fitzhugh (Letter 1)
E. H. Harriman
Elizabeth Fries Lummis Ellet
Henry DoVille, Sr.
Hobos in Sodus Point
James Fenimore Cooper
Swales Family
Pier Light time lapse at night
Plaques
Interpretive Panels…
1812 Peace Garden Interpretive Panel
Cobblestone Interpretive Panel
French and Indian War Interpretive Panel
SEAWAY Trails War of 1812 British Raids
Plaques…
1812 Peace Garden Plaque
Asher Warner Plaque
Black Community Plaque / Marker
Captain Wickham Plaque
Coal Trestle Plaque
Lighthouse Keeper’s House Plaque
Old Sodus Lighthouse Plaque
Robert Trent Jones, Sr. Plaques
Trolley
Underground RR
World War 1 Memorial
WW II POW Camp Plaque
Quirky Stories
Billy Boomerang
First Meeting in our Town
George Helfer
Humour during the Battle of Sodus Point
Ling Eaters
Ling Eaters and Other Strange Fish Presentation
No Name Cheese
Old Tom
Swordfish Caught in Sodus Bay
The Ghost Sailor of Charles Point
The Horse That Drank Beer
The Murder of Jim Hall
The Piano in the Back of the Truck
Turkish Goats of Garfield (Eagle) Island
Whiskey Jim
Rainbows
Recreation
1986 Powerboat Race off of Sodus Point
Bayshore Amusement Park
Boat Marinas
Katlynn Marine
Doodle-Bug
Ice Skating on the New Ice Skate Rink (2019)
Kitesurfing
Sailboat Racing – 1958
Sands Points Amusement Park
Taxi Dancing
The Man Who Waterskied Across the Lake
Tobagganing
Winter Racing on Sodus Bay
Religion and Social Movements
Christian Holler
Fourierism
Shakers At Sodus Bay
Self Guided Tour Brochure of Historic Sodus Point
Sky Lanterns Launch – July 4 2015
Slaves in Sodus Point
African Americans in Sodus
African Americans in Sodus and Wayne County
Maxwell Settlement
Civil War Letter from James A. Potter
Dr. William Darby Cooke
Freedom Hill
How the Freedom Seekers got to Sodus Point
More Underground RR in Sodus Point
Jacob Buys
Sodus Point Tunnel
The Sodus Point Tunnel
The Sodus Point Tunnel Revealed?
The Newport Family
Underground Railroad Poems
November 27
Sodus Bay Web Cam
Sodus Point – Somewhere in Time
Sodus Point in January 2019
Sodus Point Memories
Coal Trestle Fire – 11/5/1971
Coal Trestle Fire 2 – 11/05/1971
Coal Trestle Fire Videos
Dannys Superette
Families
Deborah Hopkins (Hopkins / DoVille Families)
Doug Stark (50s – 60s)
Fishing
Fish Pirates
Fishing Charts (1930 – 1950)
Happy Days
Migrant Workers
Mrs. DoVille’s Ice Cream Cones
Myths and Folklore
British Pay Ship
Prohibition
Santiago de Sodus Point
Sodus Bay Social Club
Sodus Point 1965
Sodus Point Lakers
Summer Storms – 2013
Swimming the Channel
The Day our Village was Born
Sunrises
October 24
Timeline
1400s
1450
1700s
1759
1794
Sodus Point – Founded in 1794
1800s
1808
1813
1820s
1825
1826
1835
1856
1870
1880s
1881
1884
1890s
1890
1893
1899
1900s
1900
1910s
1910
1919
1924
1929
1938
1940s
1940
1944
1958
1965
1986
2000s
2010
2013
Underground Railroad
Underground Railroad in Sodus Point
Underground Railroad in Local History
Upcoming Historic Events
War & Battles
Battle of Sodus Point (The Music Video)
Battle of Sodus Point – War of 1812
Battle of Sodus Point – War of 1812 (The Men)
British Invasion of Sodus Point Reenactment (1994)
Civil War
Diaries of a World War 2 Sodus Point POW
Diaries of Walter Meyer – Sodus Point POW Part 2
Diary of Walter Meyer – Sodus Point POW Part 1
Lead up to the Battle of Sodus Point
POWS – The human side
The Other British “Invasions” of Sodus Bay
The Willow Tree, the Cannon Ball and the Battle of Sodus Point
Town of Sodus Deceased Veterans Lists
WW II Sodus Point P.O.W Camp
Web Cam Sign In
What’s New