The Midwestern town was little more than a village, even though it boasted a fair-sized hotel.

Before the American Civil War, the town boasted an all-female college, a boys' military academy, and a fine hotel.

At one point Sand Point boasted a hotel, a dance hall, a general store, and a post office.

At one time Balaclava boasted two blacksmith shops, a woodworking shop, a post office, three stores, and a hotel.

During this time the town boasted a school, a two-story hotel, stores, a saloon and telegraph service.

The district had been extensively subdivided by the mid-1860s and boasted a hotel, a post office (opened on 1 December 1864)

It once boasted a hotel, horse track,post office and many other businesses.

The area at this time also boasted a hotel, the "Cocoanut House", a church, and a post office.

Town boasted a hotel, restaurants, taverns, blacksmiths, and ice cream parlors.

At one point or another it boasted a sawmill, a hotel, physicians, an undertaker, and several of the more typical retail shops.