1:14 pm, September 9, 2015
Lagoon Heights, developed in 1873 with 500 lots for sale between County Road and Pennsylvania avenue, was the home of the Prospect House Hotel which, like most of the rest of Oak Bluffs’ famed tourist accommodations, burned down in 1898. Real estate super salesman Eben Davis Bodfish (“Lots for Little”) no doubt sold a lot of those lots, one of which was owned by his wife, Elizabeth.