SS A.B. Watson at dock, in front of the Lakeside Club House (then known as the Colonial Club and then finally the O'Wash-ta-Nong Club, west shore Reeds Lake, circa 1910 - 1918. Rose's Swimming School & Bathing Beach in view
SS Major A.B. Watson, 1894 - 1921
Civil War Major Amasa Brown Watson was a friend of Reeds Lake steamboat Captain John Honore Poisson. After Watson died in 1888 Poisson named his newly built steamboat after the Major. Watson was a lumberman and a…