My husband Tom and I purchased the property from my mother in 1995 and used Plywood each summer while renting out Leeway to help with expenses. Finally, in 2018 our dream came true and we have replaced “Plywood” with our retirement cabin “Arcadia”! This construction project included installing a well and septic system which both […]
Category: History
Building a History in 1938
The history of the Benton Cove vacation rental property begins in the 1930s. My grandparents, Margaret and Teddy Cooper saw an advertisement in the New York Times for a vacation spot called “Freedom” on Big Pond (just over Latimer Hill) in East Otis, Massachusetts. They began vacationing there when my mother, Edith, was just a teenager. The […]