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.
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