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Piney Ridge Stories
Marilyn
Wendell, Piney Ridge Road
The Wendell Family began coming to Hamlin Lake
in 1927. The Wendell’s
cottage is next to the property where the old Piney Ridge Hotel was
located. John Wendell
was at the family cottage the night the Piney Ridge Hotel caught
fire and burned to the ground.
He and his sister and friends went in their boat out into the
lake to watch and to be safe in case the fire came close to their
cottage.
The Piney Ridge was an elegant
hotel with dancing, tennis, aquaplaning (before water skiing).
Visitors to the hotel came on the dummy railroad down
Lake Shore Drive.
They took a launch the ½ mile across Hamlin to the hotel.
The hotel manager, J.J. Smith, went on to run the Portage
Point Hotel in Onekama.
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