Timberlane Road & Abbie Lane

58 Timberlane Road is one of the original cabins to be built in District 9 and has been in the same family since it was built, now with the 4th generation visiting the camp. While Priscilla Lippard was operating the Boys & Girls camp, Priscilla's sister Betty Walker, taught music to the campers. Betty's husband Ed helped with carpentry and maintenance work at the camp on the weekends. Betty must have had plenty of energy since while Ed was away working during the week, she not only worked at the boys & girls camp, but also took care of her 4 children age 6 months to 7 years old; 2 of those children worked in  the camp cafeteria.

In 1945, Ed built the original cabin at 58 Timberlane Road while sleeping outside near the stone wall on the property. Priscilla sold the Boys & Girls camp and majority of the land back to Ike Randall in 1949 but kept the land and cabin of 58 Timberlane Road and deeded it to her sister and husband Betty & Ed in 1950. Before selling the camp, since the original cabin was very small for a family of now 7, the family moved one of the small cabins from the boys & girls camp down to 58 Timberlane Road for more sleeping space and it was known as "the little cabin". A porch was added to the main cabin in the mid 1950s and later a bathroom was added and the kitchen was enlarged within the original cabin space. The main cabin was heavily damaged during a 1958 hurricane, likely Hurricane Helene. The doors and windows were hard to open due to the damage so Ed and Zeke True used Zeke's truck to straighten the cabin back out. The outhouse was heavily damaged and the "little cabin" was damaged enough to be unusable. An additional bedroom was later added to the original cabin, but otherwise, the cabin still has much of its original construction and charm. Sadly, Betty passed away in 1988 and Ed in 1991, but the remaining 3 generations still enjoy visiting the cabin often.

We thank Margaret "Peggy" Walker Lupone, Eleanor Walker Keech, and  Priscilla Walker Clark, Ed & Betty's daughters, and Heidi Hayes, their granddaughter for details of this history and these great old photos with captions (click on one of the photos in the first 2 set to enlarge and see captions). The 2nd set of photos are the aftermath of the 1958 hurricane.

Maurice "Ike" Randall Sr. was the father of Maurice I. Randall Jr., both of whom were Hampstead Town Historians. In addition to being actively involved in town as a tax collector, chief of police, and a Selectman, Ike was in the timber harvest business and purchased land to access the trees on the land and often subdivided the land afterwards. This was the case for both the 22 and 13.5 acres of SLA District 9.

Ike first subdivided the shorefront of the 22 acre property into 16 lots as shown in the 1945 plan below. Some of the properties were sold as double lots or later consolidated and resulted in the 12 total waterfront properties (7 along Abbie Lane and 5 along Timberlane Road:#s 42-56). Abbie Lane was named after Ike's wife and was originally just the section of road perpendicular to the lake with the portion parallel to the lake being named "Sunrise Drive".

After Priscilla sold most of the 13.5 acres back to Ike Randall in 1949, Ike sold 4 additional shorefront properties in 1952&1953 which are now 60-66 Timberlane Road. Many of those properties had various land swaps throughout the years adjusting their sizes/lot lines including 66 Timberlane almost doubling in size by the addition of land outside of the 13.5 acres that was originally part of camp lots along the shore of what is now Sunset Park Campground.

38 Timberlane Road was sold without a plan in 1960 and 32,34,&36 Timberlane Road were all sold in 1963 per the plan shown below. You will notice on the plan that the original name of Timberlane Road was actually Timber Lane and this name is also referenced in early deeds. The name was likely due to the fact that this road was used for many generations to extract timber from the 22 acre property.

The rest of the Timberlane Road development was sold to Howard Builders Inc. in 1964. Howard Builders divided it into 17 lots as shown in the plan below. These became the 16 properties of 11-30 & 33 Timberlane Road (29 Timberlane is a double lot).