Isle End - 1896

This cottage was built in 1896 for Emma Sanderson of Greenfield, MA and her husband Perley Horne.  Emma's father had built the Humphries Cottage the year before.  After the Hornes moved to Hawaii, they sold to Walter Eddy, then Ernie Dodge.  The cottage has been in Damon hands since 1959 and is now owned by the Damon Trust.  

Some notes on Isle End from John Howland's memories:

"Isle End (built by Perley Horne, a master at Dummer Academy and before my time) was owned by Dr. and Mrs. Walter Eddy, a Columbia professor, tall and erect and an avid boatsman. Later, Ernest and Lillian Dodge owned it for many years, he a nephew of Raymond Dodge and a language teacher at Horace Mann School. He never shed a slight German accent (which I suspected he cultivated). Lillian was a charming woman. His German mother visited and gathered mushrooms around the island. She obviously knew her mushrooms as all diners were delighted and never ill. Linwood Otis, a deck boy on Mark Thompson's boats as a boy, did the chores and ran Ernest's boat. After, Lillian died, two women stayed with Ernest. Helen Wilson, and a blonde whose name we've lost. Helen was the one who named the cottage "Isle End" and had Linwood make the sign. Her ashes were placed on the property by Linwood. After her death, Ernest married a lady named Katherine, who as Ernest's widow (I guess) transferred the cottage to the Damons next door. Then, for years, Polly and Buss Morrill occupied the cottage, he performing many religious services for the island as well as being my frequent fishing partner as we caught cunners and rock cod off the southeast rocks with our bamboo poles. After Buss died (the hemlock on the center path is a memorial), Polly and Fred Waldron came, before Fred's cancer impaired the Heron life style. Happily 2 later generations have visited the island. Polly and Fred were neighbors of Jim Barkers in both New London, N.H. and winters in Naples, Fl. where we fortunately occasionally see Polly and Jim."