Willow Point Map Views

Known as Willow Point, Wolf's Island, Stingy Point, but has been simply refered to as Willow Point over the years

This point was also called 'Wolf Island' the 1870's and was one of the favorite embarking points for fisherman.

When Judge Maurice] Winfield took posession he changed the name the accounting found as follows in the 31 Jul 1918 issue of the Citizen:
Judge Winfield says that when he bought the location for his house it was known the country ‘round as Stingy Point, from the alleged character of its then owner. The Judge promptly rechristened his purchase, calling his summer home “Cherry Villa” from the great wild cherry trees that stand guard on either side of it.


But this cottage which was probably first known as 'Willow Point' but the term "Willow Point " I was told because of the abundance of a large willow trees that stood on the property and along the shore of the point.

There is legend that an Indian descendant of one of the chiefs of this area was brought back from Georgia to be buried here on Willow Point. It is said he refused to go to the reservations so went to an Indian village in Georgia. In one of the Indian mound parks it is said there is a plaque that the tells of him giving his name and burial location. I have not found proof of this as yet. - it was to have been on the south section or what became Villa Primavera and then Willow Point

The property had been subdivided down first into 2 lots and now it has been sudivided down into five lots.

These properties for years had the railroad between them and the lake till about late 1970's or early 1980's when it was abandoned and the property owners bought the railroad right-a-way back. This is indicated by a a stip of land that was described as generally: "PRT W1/2 NW1/4:COM W1/4 COR E1030.15'"



1976 - The Pennsylvania Railroad track was abandoned and lot owners on South Street and the west side of the lake purchased the right-of-way between their property and the lake.

The Maxinkuckee West Side Property Owners, Inc. was formed to procure and buy up the railroad prperty along the shore of Lake Maxinkuckee from Plymouth St. to the end of South Street ending at West Shore. Dr.

T. B. Hamliton - "Villa Primavera" later "Willow Point"

* The railroad passed through these 2 properties cutting it off from the lake; and it pass in back of the Cherry Villa and Willow Point cottages

1835	1872
1880	1898
	1908 - Judge Morris Winfield
1914 - from the Vandalia-Catleman Lease for the grist mill
	1922 - North to south M. R. Cline Est. 312 S. Plymouth St. "Oak Knoll" * Danl Wolf 206 Mill * Judge Morris Winfield - Cherry Villa
2024

Todays view - labeled north to south.



209 E Mill
211 Mill
213 E. Mill - Cherry Villa
429 Vandalia - Willow Point
430 Vandalia
440 Vandalia