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Conneaut Lake

then and now

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Fishing in the lake

A group of wealthy men from Meadville establish the Iroquois Boating and Fishing Club in Evansburg, which is a testament to the unseen natural spoils found near and in Conneaut Lake.

Moss Bros. Lumber

Frank Mantor passes away, leaving the infant Exposition Park to John S. Kean who later died in 1896. Mrs. Mantor was in charge from the time of Kean’s death into 1898.

Hotel Conneaut

Construction of the Park Hotel, later renamed the Hotel Conneaut, begins. The hotel is still standing and is rumored to be haunted by various ghosts.

The Centennial

Commercial tourism begins when Sylvester McGuire and Frank Parker trade a cow for an acre of land and name it Oakland Beach. The Conneautville Herald reports the acre was for "the use of parties visiting the lake" and featured nine boats and a picnic pavilion.

Moss Bros. rentals

World-renowned Channelock Inc. is established in Conneaut Lake, employing many people for decades to come.

Conneaut Lake celebrates its Centennial with a parade involving a marching band and people dressed in the clothes of 1858.

The Oakland Hotel

View of the park

Wolf Island

The Fair Point Hotel is completed, though it burns down just three years later.

Evansburg begins to make the transition from a hunting and fishing destination to a tourist one. Many industrial workers from Pittsburgh begin to frequent country retreats like Evansburg.

Harvesting ice

Log cabin in park

The Meadville-Linesville railroad is completed and regular operation begins in October. This leads to a generous increase in construction, traffic, and commerce in Evansburg.

The Meadville Daily Messenger prints a story about Mark Twain’s secret visit to Conneaut Lake in 1879. He stayed on Wolf Island as the guest of Phil Miller, and though he interacted with many of the townspeople during his stay he was known only by the pseudonym "Mr. Turner".

The Ralston family

The Conneaut Lake Ice Company is formed by a group of Meadville residents. The Ice Company buys the lake and surrounding land from the state which had previously owned it for purposes related to the canal.

Conneaut Lake gets a liquor license. The Navigation Company does booming business as a consequence, as the steamers were a popular place to imbibe. The license was not renewed the next year because the community had issues with drunkards.

Local legend Phil Miller arrives in Evansburg. He is renowned for his storytelling abilities and propensity for hunting, fishing, and boat making. Despite his relative fame, he lived a semi-isolated life on Wolf Island with his part-Native American wife Annie.

Wilson Ralston moves his hardware store to Water Street where it still resides today.

The Erie Railroad currently discriminates against smaller businesses by charging more for shorter trips than "long hauls"; transporting goods from Meadville to Pittsburgh was often more costly than transporting them from Pittsburgh to Chicago. As a consequence the locals began planning to build their own railroad in 1878.

Moss's ice cream

Lynce's Landing gets its first steamer, the Tuna. The boat's unveiling is attended by 3000 people and it is later joined by the Fearless and the Keystone later that same year.

The Virginia Hotel is completed and remains in Conneaut Lake for thirty years.

The Lake House

Conneaut Township native Frank Mantor courts various Meadville businessmen for investments and is eventually able to incorporate the Conneaut Lake Exposition Company, later known as Exposition Park and eventually Conneaut Lake Park. Mantor purchased the McClure family farm and Lynce’s Landing and placed the park there. It featured two bowling alleys, a log cabin, and a restaurant.

The park begins to integrate more mechanical, modern rides, elevating its unofficial status from fair ground to amusement park.

The Midway Hotel

Oakland Beach coaster

Lynce's Landing

View of the shore

Steamers at dock

Mastodon bones

Trolley car

Exposition Park

Swimmers in the lake

Liberty the Second

Donation lands

Portion of Erie Canal

The Lord House

Pumpkin Parade

The town of Conneaut Lake installs a water system, eliminating the opportunity to interact with neighbors at the "town pump". Electricity is introduced two years later. Both modern additions limit social interactions among residents.

It is decided that the new railroad will run from Meadville to Linesville, passing through Evansburg. By April the track has been laid as far as Evansburg and all three towns have pledged money to the project. The Evansburg station was built in July. The project cut the price of local train transportation drastically.

A canal aqueduct on Elk Creek collapses and is left unrepaired, marking the end of the canal era for Evansburg. Local men later cut the lake's bank in order to reduce the water level to normal, accidentally causing a flood in the process.

Boat parades are very popular for a number of years. In the parades, residents would adorn their own boats with decorations and paddle from the Oakland around the lake to show off their handiwork.

S.A. Harshaw, who arrived in Conneaut Lake in 1897, assembles all of the boats on the lake into the Conneaut Lake Navigation Company.

The Nickel Plate

Young entrepreneur Fred Moss moves his family from Canada to Evansburg. He started by selling ice cream on the 4th of July and later moved on to cobbling, renting out boats, and finally Moss Bros. Lumber company.

The iconic Lake House is built by Robert and Sara Chidester. The Lake House was an important landmark, functioning later as a hotel-cum-boarding house under the watchful eye of Mary Lord and her daughters until 1864.

Two of the most famous and competitive hotels, the Oakland and the Midway, are unable to pay the “toilet tax” required to connect to the new sewage system. As a result, they are both demolished, effectively ending their 65 year rivalry.

A friend of David Mead's, Cornelius Van Horne, is captured by members of the Wyandot tribe while doing farm work and taken to Conneaut Lake. He is tied to a sapling but manages to escape.

A battle over the rightful owner of the lake breaks out. The Ice Company holds the deed to the land, but is challenged in a court case that is resolved in 1907.

The Midway Hotel is built by Amos Quigley and the Oakland Hotel is built by Sylvester McGuire; the two hotels begin to compete with one another for business and bragging rights.

The courts decide that the lake is essentially public property and prevent the Ice Company from charging a fee to operate commercial boats.

“Railroad Park” is completed. It was a picnic grove near where the Iroquois Boating and Fishing Club is today. It was also known as Conneaut Lake Park though all it boasted was a set of swings, a boat dock, and a small merry-go-round.

A massive fire at the Hotel Conneaut destroys about half of the residential space, reducing the number of guest rooms from 300 to 150.

The most destructive fire to date originates at the Bismarck Hotel on December 1st; it spread to the Park destroying several structures and causing over $100,000 in damage.

Traffic on the Erie Canal dwindles. As a consequence, so does the traffic to Evansburg, which was once a popular place for boats to stop.

Conneaut Lake gets its first roller coaster at Oakland Beach. The “Circular Gravity Railway" is constructed just two years after the coaster at Coney Island.

Conneaut Lake celebrates its Sesquicentennial with a parade, in which some of the oldest citizens of the town ride in Liberty the Second. Locals also filled a time capsule at the Historical Society.

Native Americans inhabit the area. The Six Nations are to the East of Crawford County, while the Wyandots, Shawnees, etc. are to the West. The Western tribes are extremely hostile. The Native Americans called the area Conneaut, meaning "snow waters".

Boat races are a popular pastime for the residents of Evansburg, and the Crawford Journal often reports on them, naming the weights and varieties of boats as well as the winners.

Abner Evans settles near the lake. He constructs a sawmill on Conneaut Outlet and names the area Evansburg. The community will bear his name until 1884.

David Mead and a group of men explore the area and choose to settle in what will later become the city of Meadville.

Conneaut Lake and its few hotels are advertised as "away from the noise and bustle" in brochures. This branding was likely meant to attract visitors from nearby industrial Pittsburgh.

Park owner Gary Harris, who acquired the park the previous year, runs into financial problems and deeds the Park to the Conneaut Lake community. It becomes a not-for-profit public trust.

The Lake House is sold and torn down. The land was purchased and another hotel was built on the land within two months, an indicator of the pace of expansion in the area.

A man named Aaron Lynce builds a boat rental shop across the lake from where Conneaut Lake Park currently resides. The area is now known as Lynce's Landing.

Wooly Mammoth and Mastodon bones are found on the shores of Conneaut Lake.

There are five steam boats on the lake: the Helena, the Iroquois, the Pittsburgh, the Outing, and the Cruiser.

Trolley lines in the area are shut down due to the advent of newer and faster personal vehicles as well as bus lines.

The Crawford County Fair Association’s first fair in Conneaut Lake draws 30,000 people over four days to the park.

Seven steam boats are on the lake: the Swan, the Story, the Iroquois, the Nickel Plate, the Trilby, the Conneaut, and the Superior.

Construction of a trolley system begins in Meadville and is extended to Conneaut Lake within the year.

An excerpt published in a daily magazine espouses Conneaut Lake as “America’s largest lake resort".

Conneaut Lake is a kettle lake, formed by the depressions left by receding glaciers toward the end of the Pleistocene Era.

A massive malaria outbreak nearly wipes out the town. Most casualties are interred in Barber Cemetery.

The town is often subject to starvation because settlers are unable to clear land effectively, in addition to difficulties with planting.

Liberty the Second, the speedboat that sunk in 1922, is finally recovered from the watery depths of the lake.

Despite the Great Depression, Conneaut Lake remains resilient and still attracts numerous tourists to the lake and park.

The canal declares bankruptcy and is later purchased by the railroad in 1872.

Maria Lord, formerly of the Lake House, now runs the Lord House hotel.

Local residents make a giant wooly mammoth float to add to the annual Pumpkin Parade.

For “convenience as well as advertising”, Evansburg's train station is officially renamed Conneaut Lake train station on June 9. The town is still known as Evansburg.

The town of Evansburg changes its name to Conneaut Lake.

The level of the lake is raised 9 feet to permit the construction of the Erie Canal.

Veterans are given "donation lands" in the vicinity of Conneaut Lake.

Conneaut Lake Park fails to open for the summer season due to monetary issues.

The Hotel Elmwood is demolished because it has been damaged beyond repair.

The Blue Streak celebrates its 50th birthday, complete with birthday cake.

Conneaut Lake Park celebrates its 100th birthday.

The Nickle Plate steamer is introduced to the lake.

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