Surf Hotel Ad from 1877 click to enlarge
Early Map shows two hotels in what is now Saltaire
Surf Hotel and Dominy House ads, 1869
Surf Hotel and Dominy House ads, 1869
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This must be the tower that the old lady climed up and scared the keeper.
We have a picture of the tower from the 1920's, but this is an 1898 postcard. The inscription does not mention the wooden tower, just the lighthouse: "the present light was erected in 1857-58. First painted black and white bands in 1891. An important light for transatlantic steamers bound for New York."
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My guess would be that the "dot," indicating a hotel out near Coffey Point, is what later became Captain Baldwins home on the cove.
I believe that is the Wireless Station that notified ship owners in NYC far enough in advance to have a sufficient number of longshoremen and dockworkers to meet the ships as they reached the docks.
who said:
"And Jesus was a sailor when he walked upon the water
He spent a long watching from his lonley wooden tower"
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