Howe Island Old Houses 2

Thanks to John Foley for Photos and info.
First photo of cottage, second is cottage (right house) as a ferry view.
"This is the cottage that my grandfather (S.I. Foley) and his brothers built so that "out of town" relatives would have a place to stay during visits. Dad spent every summer there. My father, (and I assume my Aunt Frances) inherited it upon S.I.'s death. My dad sold it in 1964 to Dick Pickett the summer before we moved to California. I have been told that it is now owned by the Saunders women. Originally it had a large wood burning stove in the kitchen, and a Franklin stove in the living area. The kitchen stove was not cared for correctly, and the bottom rusted out. The original chimney in the kitchen was removed during the late 1980's. When I went there during the summer's, as a child in the late fifties and mid-sixties the shore was a coarse, shallow gravel, but relatively clean and safe to swim in. Presently, a green algae covers the rocks, and it is too slippery to walk upon."

Judge Thompsons Cabin. Thank to John Foley for Photo!

Judge Thompsons Cabin on Spithead, moved there from somewhere else.

CORRECTION to above 2 photos

FROM JUDITH BEAMAN NOV 8, 2001
"As I continued to work my way through your fascinating information concerning Howe Island, I came upon two small issues I thought you might wish to know about.
Firstly, the photo by Mr. Foley of "Judge Thompson's cabin" is not, in fact, his place. It belongs to Cathy Pearcy. Judge Thomson, who is my husband, and I owned a different log home farther down the Spithead Road. It was taken down from a location in North Frontenac and reconstructed on the spithead. It is now owned by Danny and Cheryl Tomlack from Kingston.
Secondly, the Cassidy cabin, to which I referred in my previous e-mail is an original structure on the island. It has not been moved. We were lucky enough to get a couple of logs from the old Clarke cabin down the road. Our builder discovered that the Clarke cabin was being torn down, so he salvaged some logs from it (with the owner's permission, of course). We used those logs to repair some rotting logs in our cabin, but otherwise, this cabin is the original Cassidy homestead. "

Thanks Judith!!

The Islands: Howe Island Old Houses 2