Hotel Sutherland |
| A 52-room hotel was built and opened in
1910. The hotel cost about $50,000. It had 52-rooms well furnished with every modern convenience, such as running water, the newest design in sewage disposal, and a Delco system in a tin barn behind the hotel. This held a generator which supplied electricity for the whole hotel. It was very modern for the year of 1910. The hotel was white and had dark windows that you could hardly see through. There were 52 windows on the hotel, one on each room. The rooms had couches and other furniture. People would come and spend the night on weekends. The hotel had bathing pools and bath houses and a dance pavilion. Behind the hotel were swings, trees, plants, and long white sidewalks. My grandmother and her parents used to live at the Sutherland Springs hotel. My grandmother's father lived in the wagons outside because he was scared (he was nine years old). Here's the story of why he was scared. One night a man was wandering down the hallways and he looked in the room but my grandmother's father hid under his covers and the man went on. Sometimes my great-grandfather would fish and swim in the ponds. They had all kinds of fish that were all different colors. Some were orange, gold, black, white, and rainbow colored. The swings were a brick-red color. There were two swings on each swing set. My grandmother used to ride her bike on the sidewalks in the evening. She would play with her dolls in the sand and on the sidewalks. It was cool in the summer because there were so many trees and so much shade. There were over twenty trees around the hotel. The hotel was two stories high with ten rooms on each story. |