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In previous posts we’ve written about Alexander MacKenzie Cole and his family. You can read those posts here and here and here. For additional posts mentioning Alexander, use the Search function in the upper right-hand corner of this blog.
We recently ran across this article providing a little insight about how Alexander and his family might have spent some of their leisure time.
The Spokane Press – Tuesday, Jul 19, 1910 – Spokane, WA – Vol:8 – Page: 6
The wording “broken up camp” might lead us to believe that they had good old tent camping. However, Newman Lake, like many other area lakes, was a resort destination in the early 20th century. Excursion trains from Spokane use to run to Moab, where busses and stages took passengers three miles to the lake. At one time there were four hotels, each one doing a brisk business. There were rental boats, beaches and fishing (the result of locals hand-carrying fish from both Liberty Lake and from hatchery stores that arrived by train). It is possible that the Coles stayed in one of the earlier built resort hotels.
You can read more about the history of Newman Lake here.
Loney Family from County Longford, Ireland 