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• 1940s Video of Sodus Point
• Agriculture
• 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
    • Bay View B & B
    • Maxwell Creek Inn B & B (now a private residence)
  • Camp Beechwood Cobblestone Building
  • Churches
    • Catholic Church
    • Episcopal Church
    • Methodist Church
  • Clubs
    • Sodus Bay Heights Golf Club
  • Cottage Names in Sodus Point
  • 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
    • Sylvanus Jenkins Macy
  • 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
• Camping Near Charles Point Circa 1914
• 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
• Diaries of Walter Meyer – Sodus Point POW Part 3
• Diaries of Walter Meyer – Sodus Point POW Part 4
• 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
• Home
• Lake Ontario
• Lighthouse Concert
• Links
• Locations of Historic Plaques and Murals
• Macyville Trail Plaque
• 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
  • Sodus Bay Lighthouse Underground Railroad Mural
  • Sodus Bay Mystery Ship 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)
  • Trolley in the Snow
• Old Post Cards
• 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
    • Sodus Beach
  • Plaques…
    • 1812 Peace Garden Plaque
    • Asher Warner Plaque
    • Black Community Plaque / Marker
    • Captain Wickham Plaque
    • Coal Trestle Plaque
    • Lighthouse Keeper’s House Plaque
    • Lighthouse National Register of Historic Places 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
  • Sodus Point Automobile Club – 1919
  • 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 Point – Somewhere in Time
• Sodus Point in January 2019
• Sodus Point Memories
  • Artificial Intelligence and the History of Sodus Point
  • 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 Bay, The Beautiful
  • Sodus Point 1965
  • Sodus Point Lakers
  • Summer Storms – 2013
  • Swimming the Channel
  • The Day our Village was Born
• Sunrises
  • October 24
• The 2024 Solar Eclipse
• 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
• Trolley Map – Early 1900s
• Underground Railroad
• Underground Railroad in Sodus Point
  • Underground Railroad in Local History
• Upcoming Historic Events
• War & Battles
  • Battle of Sodus Point – War of 1812
  • Battle of Sodus Point – War of 1812 (The Men)
  • Battle of Sodus Point (The Music Video)
  • 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
  • Diaries of Walter Meyer – Sodus Point POW Part 5
  • 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
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