... saw Eastsound firmly established as the commercial center, hotels and small resorts began operation in a few locations, and the schools were consolidated. Fish traps and lime kilns ended their work, and canneries entered a decline. ...
By the early 1850s, however, the economy was picking up steam, with the opening of mills, lime kilns, factories churning out plows and bricks, and a busy quarry that supplied limestone for the first buildings at Rock Island Arsenal ... Just west of the museum along the riverfront near the picnic pavilion, there is a marker where the Green Tree Hotel once stood. The large elm with an umbrella-shaped canopy was a popular spot where rapids pilots would sit in the shade on a ...
An expat of NSW in Austrailia bought the estate in the early 1900s and offered it to the Australian government as a military hospital in 1914. It was 1915 when the first commanding officer, orderlies and 150 patients arrived at the ...
