1886

The evicting force came in the early forenoon to find the house locked and barricaded against them, while the yards and adjoining fields were crowded with sympathetic neighbours and townspeople who had been summoned by the ringing of Church bells and blowing of horns. To a demand for possession, Tim Hurley replied that if they wanted possession they'd have to fight for it. When the bailiffs rushed with a battering ram against the shuttered parlour window, they were met with showers of scalding water from the upstairs windows. The eviction failed! www.failteromhat.com/castleviewevictions.php

OSI 25" link: maps.osi.ie/publicviewer/#V1,542570,544838,7,9

Niall McAuley Thanks Niall. Good clear account, but no light cast on the Land League Hut...

Arrangements had been made to build a hut for the evicted tenant if the eviction were successful, and in the evening about two thousand persons assembled in the town with thirty carts, and conveyed the materials of the hut to Hurley's holding, near Hurley's holding, near which they erected it. Bands were in attendance, and the proceedings were marked by great rejoicings. trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/75850828

Niall McAuley Excellent! That explains the hut then - well done, Trove! And you too, Niall... :)

The Seminole Hotel at Lake Osceola in Winter Park, Florida opened in 1886. The hotel was a five-story, 200+ room structure and cost $150,000 to build and furnish. When completed it was the largest hotel in Florida and had more than 2,300 registered guests the first season. As wagons and carriages were the only modes of local transportation at the time guests were brought to the hotel from the South Florida Railroad train depot via a horse car that traveled on rails. It's shown in the above photo in front of the entrance. The hotel featured a 42x100 ft. formal dining room, many parlors, suites with open fireplaces, a barbershop, laundry services, and a 567 ft. long colonnaded porch.  Guests could take the elevator to view the surrounding area from the promenade on the top of the hotel. The original Seminole Hotel, above, was destroyed by fire in 1902, and the underinsured property was sold for residential lots.  A new Seminole Hotel was built on the western shore of Lake Osceola in 1913 on the eastern end of Webster Avenue that is now Kiwi Circle. The hotel sold for $250,000 in 1970 and was torn down to make way for residential development. –Excerpted  [1] [2]

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