Since it has been quiet I figured I would post a few things I have read in the Batsto Citizens Gazette from 1971 and 1974.
There is a B&W photo in the 1974 edition showing one of the two remaining homes at Hermann City. So we know there were still dwellings there in 1971. The windows and doors had been boarded up and someone had removed the boards on the doors. The house looks like a typical old wooden house that would be found in the pines.
And in 1957 the first year Batsto opened to the public, there were 46,000 visitors for the year. In just the month of August of 1971 there were 68,000. And in a 1974 edition it mentioned that in 1973 due to the energy crisis and bad weather on the weekends, the attendance had hit an almost all-time low.
Guy
There is a B&W photo in the 1974 edition showing one of the two remaining homes at Hermann City. So we know there were still dwellings there in 1971. The windows and doors had been boarded up and someone had removed the boards on the doors. The house looks like a typical old wooden house that would be found in the pines.
And in 1957 the first year Batsto opened to the public, there were 46,000 visitors for the year. In just the month of August of 1971 there were 68,000. And in a 1974 edition it mentioned that in 1973 due to the energy crisis and bad weather on the weekends, the attendance had hit an almost all-time low.
Guy