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This resort goes back to the earliest days of Fenton and the site of a famous battle between Indians and Americans. From the TCTimes: "The ravine back of Bayport (a resort community on the lake which included the Bayport Hotel and beach). The area now occupied by the Fenton Moose Club (formerly the old Fenton Yacht Club), was the scene of a frontier battle in which a freebooting gang of about 80 white renegades was completely exterminated. The coup was made possible mainly through the heroic effort of a mute Indian boy named Segoguen."
I am using the address of the current Moose Lodge as that is the location of the old resort and late the Yacht Club.
From Ed Constable:
At the North end of the lake, Capt. Foster built the Bay Port Hotel in 1903, and this area was destined to be a popular region of entertainment for many years.
The first wooden structure was a two-story affair with the bedrooms opening out onto a second-story porch and a pleasant view of the lake. Excellent food was provided in the first-floor dining room and the place was well patronized, though its accommodations were limited. There were two popular picnic areas at Bay Port, Robinson’s Grove, now Fenton Township Park and W.B. Banghart’s, the latter having the first sheds for horses.
Some improvements were made to the hotel in 1905, when Capt. Dave Sanders, who was operating the “Mayflower” (formerly the Maccabee) took it over. It changed hands again a few years later when Miss Jennie McLaughlin of Chicago acquired the property. The dances she held in her “pavilion” were quite an attraction twice a week. A notation in June, 1911, announced Roberta Barnays, violinist, a niece of John Phillip Sousa, as one of her musicians.
The Bay Port area was platted by Capt. Foster, Charles S. Brown of Flint and Edith Marsh, who with her father, was operating the hotel in its early years. Other Flint people to build early at this point were Perry Allen, Henry Ingham, Fred Swan, Clark Dibble (at that time, 1901, mayor of Flint) and Frank Rutherford, whose cottage is remembered by its name, “Inside and Out.”
Long Branch, west of Bay Port, was not only one of the first areas to attract summer cottagers, but it also was the site of the first Auto Club of Flint. Its members, who were the owners of the first and certainly conspicuous motorcars, erected a cottage there about 1905 as a suitable rendezvous for weekends and holidays.
Laverne P. Marshall, Flint automobile dealer, recalls that his father, William M. Marshall, whose cottage adjoined the clubhouse, was so impressed with Will Paterson’s Winton, styled with a turtle back tonneau, that he bought it in 1906.