​Another picture taken from Acker’s Point shows the cottage now owned by the Hoke family. It was probably built around the same time and would have been difficult to get to until the railroad ties were taken up in 1937/38. Further south from the Hoke cottage are four cottages built right on the shoreline. I have heard reports that the engineers from the railroad were housed in one of them. If that were true, they would have been built before the 1930’s, but I assume the engineers probably would have been located with their families and probably near the end of the rail route in Kalamazoo.
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So, in summary there are about 10 cottages and houses on the lake that were built prior to about 1935. Before 1940 anyone who wanted to spend a little time away from home, which was probably a farm that needed to have the cows milked morning and night, could rent a cottage at Acker’s Point or Dickinson’s Resort. Once World War Two ended people began to have higher incomes and could afford to take vacations and own second houses. And then the building boom took off around Long and other local lakes.