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WATER LOVERS, boys and girls in ONE-PIECE BATHING SUITS! Crystal Lake Motorized Launch on the other!...NW Frankfort Crystalia Crystal Lake MI RPPC THREE PINES INN 1899 Chicago businessman WL Davis built a cottage called the Three Pines and later a dining room was added. Later yet...it became the Three Pines Inn, which was sold in 1919 to Frank Marker of Detroit! Popular RESORT ERA destination, in the Railroad and Great Lakes Steamship Day's in Northern Michigan. Note: Map is provided for Resort, Crystalia and CSA location reference only.

Addition Information: ON M-22 at Crystal Lake's Southwest end…at the intersection of M-22 and South Shore Drive, just to the north of, and predating Pilgrim and the Congregational Summer Assembly, was the development of Crystalia (near Pilgrim too) with some of the most advantageous frontage on Crystal Lake.

L.W. Crane, a lumberman from Elberta, sold the land to a group of prominent Chicago business men who eventually passed it on to one of its members, W.L. Davis, who became the sole owner. Mr. Davis gave the settlement its name and named the streets.

Davis subdivided the tract of land and sold parcels to wealthy businessmen including Arthur Brink of Brinks Express, now better known as the security company Brink’s Inc.

In 1899, Davis built a cottage giving it the name Three Pines. Later a dining room was started on the premises which became the Three Pines Inn. The Inn was sold in 1919 to Frank Marker of Detroit, who later expanded the resort with a grocery and bakery. The residents of Crystalia, the Assembly and surrounding areas around the Lake, visited The Three Pines Inn every week for their renowned Sunday chicken dinners.

Frank, along with his wife, Susan, and children, Irving, Iva and Beryl ran the inn, with its rooms for rent, the dining room and the grocery. Upon Frank’s death, the resort was divided between his 3 children.

Today, this part of Three Pines is owned and maintained by Beryl Kilian’s descendants. One of the original cottages – Terrace Tower – is over one hundred years old.

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