Windermere Cottages on the have a campground attached, with 25 unserviced sites on 5 acres of land. Bagnall's off the has 40 serviced sites. Reagh and Ethel Bagnall bought land in 1958 from Lloyd Shaw , and next year put in 14 serviced trailer sites, with well and pump, washrooms and septic tank installations. In 1960 they built five housekeeping cottages, and in 1968 a larger cottage for their own use. Following the 1969 fire which destroyed the nearby Higgins' store, the Bagnalls bought the Higgins' land and put in 25 more trailer sites. Bagnall's then consisted of ten 1, 2, and 3-bedroom housekeeping cottages as well as the 40 trailer sites. In 1983 the property and business was sold to Norman and Helena Trists of Saint John, New Brunswick . Taking into consideration the hotels, motels, rental cottages, tourist homes, and camping facilities, Stanhope has something to suit every taste and every financial bracket; and the way tourists keep coming back speaks well of the quality of our accommodations. Summer Cottages The earliest summer cottage in Stanhope was that of Mr. and Mrs. F.A.A. Mutch , on what is now the (then called the ) near the Point. It began life as a boat house belonging to a wealthy druggist from Detroit named George Devlin ; each summer he brought his wife and family to stay at the Mutch Hotel. He bought a strip of land from the Higgins family, next to the Mutch farm; it was 100 feet wide and ran back 300 feet from the shore. On it he had a boat-house built, at the edge of the Bay and running out on piles into the Bay. Here he kept a row boat, a canoe, a cat-boat named the Wasp, and a cruiser which was propelled by steam generated in a kerosene- fuelled engine. At this time (early 1900s) there were a number of motor cars on the Island, and some drivers were thoughtless, drove too fast, and scared the farmers' horses and other animals. Protest meetings were held, the government was asked to intervene, and a bill was passed in 1908 limiting cars to Charlottetown . When George Devlin found that he could not drive his car wherever he wanted to go, he was very incensed; he sold the land, his boat-house, and the small boats to Allie Mutch , and the cruiser to Dr. Alley of Charlottetown ; and he never came back to the Island. The Mutches had the boat-house hauled up onto the ex- Devlin land on the Bay side of the road, added a veranda and kitchen, and as they were then living in Charlottetown , used it for some years as a summer home ??? the first in Stanhope . It still looked like a boat-house, with big double doors for the boats, so eventually, in about 1928, they had it torn down and used most of its timber to build a new cottage, on the inland side of the road this time. They engaged a good mason, 236