Page 44 - John Anderson

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In the four years that followed, after building their temporary cabin for
shelter, the brothers built their first house along the eastern bank of
the Halifax River on the peninsula and through the years that followed
helped travelers, explorers, and settlers alike with overnight food and
shelter. This would set the stage for Bosarve becoming the finest
boarding house in the area and instrumental in the growth and
development of this wilderness settlement along the Halifax River.
Although the early cabin of John and Charles Bostrom was built of
palmettos, a saw mill was being established near Mosquito Inlet by
Doctor Hawks. Doctor Hawks had come from New Hampshire and
helped organize the Florida Land and Lumber Company, just south of
the Bostrom property. This early settlement, Hawks Park, needed a
saw mill and it soon became a source of lumber for many
communities establishing a foothold along the Halifax River.

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