Mr. Bishop sold the farm and the grove about 1905 to George H. Ackerman of Lacona and from that time it was known as Ackerman’s Grove. The price paid was $3500 on 50 acres. Mr. Ackerman developed it as a summer resort, building the Ontario Bay House about 1911, which was managed by his son, Harma W. Ackerman. As early as 1880 there was located on property adjoining the John Bishop grove on the southwest a small camp built by Charles Watkins and his friend, John Henry Bentley. Both loved sailing, fishing and hunting and the camp was originally built to house a boat that Mr. Bentley already owned. As years passed other cottages were built, together with hotels, and today Ontario Bay is in itself a sizable community.

When early picnic parties from Sandy Creek went to the “Lake” they often drove by horse and carriage to the “Outlet.” This was at the junction of North and South Ponds and so called because it was near where the outlet from the Pond into the Lake was then located. A house stood here, known as the Outlet House, operated in the early days by Lysander Learned. About 1872 Jacob Best, Uncle of George Best (known as the hermit of the Wigwam Cove) bought the Outlet House. Then it was purchased and operated for forty years by Eugene Bartlett, father of Perry Bartlett. Later Byron Bassinger and Frank Tryon ran the Outlet House. The Syracuse YMCA bought the property after Mr. Tryon was drowned and operated a summer camp for boys on the site for several years. Afterward it was bought by Donald Munroe of Camillus who tore down most of the old Outlet House. Now the property is the site of the Schuster’s Trailer park.