Blacksmith Shop

A wooden framed building was constructed by William Pluemer and called the new village smithy. It served as a blacksmith shop and livery stable until the automobile made these services obsolete.

The village later needed a dance hall where the people could dance and for some time this was the location of such entertainment. Today the second floor is an apartment and the the ground floor is used as a 'shop' for fishermen.

Dutch Hollow Stone House

Before the Civil War, Frank Mueller in 1847 built the Rock House as a residence which later served as store, saloon, dance hall, boarding house, feed mill, and now as a private residence. While costructing this stone three-story building now plastered over with stucco, Mueller hosted in his log home an Easterner, John Wilkes Booth, then a little-known actor who gained fame by shooting Abraham Lincoln. Booth supposedly entertained miners and their families in a small theatre in Dutch Hollow across the street.