Thousand Island Park: One Hundred Years, and Then Some - A Centennial Year History, with the Study Architecture of Thousand Island Park [New York]

iv, 260 pp. 193 photos, two-sided fold-out map laid in. CONTENTS: Table of Illustrations; Section I: The Land: Two Ways to Create One Thousand Islands - The Chain of Title, Part I: Wars, Treaties and Confusion - The Chain of Title, Part II: Grants, Deeds and Municipalities - Three Names and an Earlier Campground; Section II: The Camp Ground: The Founding - The First Year and Early Program - Growth, and a Look to the Practical Side - New Neighbors; Between the Chapters; Section III: The Flourishing Resort: The Years of the Thousand Island Park Hotel - "The dire calamity... at the park" - Between the Chapters - Recovery - Growing, Ever Growing - Between the Chapters - A Time of Fire - The Reaction; Section IV: New Routes, Old Roots: Hopes and Disappointments - Between the Chapters - Post-War Resurgence - The Foreclosure Route - The Corporation Years - The Other Six Months; Section V: An Afterword on the Afterward: Architecture of Thousand Island Park by Paul Malo - The Opinion of Two; Appendix A: January 6, 1875 letter of the Thousand Island Camp Meeting Association; Appendix B: Business Directory; Appendix C: Notes of Appreciation; Appendix D: Financial Report; Notes on Sources, Photos, and Location of Materials; Index.