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Commerce
- Schooners and Steamboats
- 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
- Maritime Occupations and Sailors
- 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
- 1900s
- 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
- 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
- Artificial Intelligence and the History of Sodus Point
- 1940s Video of Sodus Point
- 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
- 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
  - 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
- Trolley Map – Early 1900s
- 1974 Annotated Sodus Bay Map
Other
- Camping Near Charles Point Circa 1914
- 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…
- Interpretive Panels…
Buildings
- Bed and Breakfast
- Cottage Names in Sodus Point
- The History of the Hots Point Building
- Houses
- Camp Beechwood Cobblestone Building
- Churches
- Clubs
  - Sodus Bay Heights Golf Club
  - Sodus Bay Yacht Club
- Dolphin
- Guild Hall
- Hotels
  - Sodus Point Hotel Fire
    - Railroad Y and Bunk House
- Information Center
- Malt House
- Railroad
  - Railroad Roundhouse
- 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
- Diaries of a World War 2 Sodus Point POW
- POWS – The human side
- WW II Sodus Point P.O.W Camp
- 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
- 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
- Sodus Bay Lighthouse Underground Railroad Mural
- Sodus Bay Mystery Ship 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
Blessing of the Murals
Upcoming Historic Events
Recreation
- Sodus Bay Junior Sailing Association
- Sodus Point Automobile Club – 1919
- 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
- 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
- Camp Beechwood
- Coal Trestle
- Fire Dept
- Flooding
- Second Pier – 1906
- Trolley in the Snow
The Story of the Pier Lights
The 2024 Solar Eclipse
October 5, 2026

Locations of Historic Plaques and Murals

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