The Port Hope Chimney

 Port Hope is probably about 10 miles south of the tip of the thumb.  My mom and I stopped for some ice cream (which was pretty good btw).  As we were leaving town, she notice this structure.  She thought it might be the remnants of a lighthouse.

It turnouts that it was a chimney for a lumber mill that was built in 1858 established by William R. Staford.  The chimney was built by John Geitz.

A town sprung up around the lumber mill.  It's main product was lumber but it was also a large supplier of salt.  

The area caught fire in 1871 and again in 1881.  The town never really recovered from that.