Though camps, pleasure boats, and the sandy beaches of Fair Haven State Park dominate Little Sodus Bay and the lake shore today, by 1910 the bay was the second busiest port on the southern shore of Lake Ontario. Trains connected with barges, schooners, and steamers that brought coal and vacationers from the interior and returned dairy products cooled with ice harvested in winter. During Prohibition, rumrunners unloaded fast boats in the bay under cover of darkness, and trucks later picked up the bottles. The steamer 'Arundell' once carried passengers between resorts around Lake Ontario. Ice cut from the bay for domestic refrigeration was stored in many ice houses around the bay and adjacent farms and was exported by rail as far as New York City and Philadelphia to cool milk and fish. A huge coal trestle 30 feet high and 1500 feet long once stood at the end of the bay so railroad cars could load coal onto ships. Coal shipments recorded by John Brown, agent for the Lehigh Valley Railroad, totaled 1,567,070 tons from 1905 to 1918. The bay's development included the first permanent settlement in 1805, the building of Cottage Farm in 1835-1837, the Light Keeper's house in 1873, completion of the railroad trestle in 1878, incorporation of the village of Fair Haven in 1880, peak coal shipping in 1891, licensing of the steamer 'Arundell' for freight and 800 passengers in 1897, construction of Pearson's Hotel in 1898 and the Pleasant Beach Hotel in 1908, 568 ships clearing the port and 138 tons of ciscos shipped in 1917, abandonment of the coal trestle in 1930, its removal in 1937, and the end of the railroad era with the last passenger train in 1938. Seaway Trail ports connected inland people and products to the Lake Ontario marine highway.