From 1883 to 1886, the Grand Trunk Western and Ann Arbor & Toledo Railroads laid tracks here, and soon afterward the first hotels and resorts were built along the Huron River's Chain of Lakes. Throughout the early 1900s, people left the heat and industry of cities such as Detroit and Ann Arbor to enjoy the area's water and natural beauty. Between 1911 and 1924, the gasoline-powered McKeen Motor Car, known as "The Ping-Pong," ran between Lakeland and Ann Arbor eight times a day and seated 83 passengers. After World War II, a booming economy, better roads, and more cars drew people from places such as northern Ohio to build summer cottages in lower Michigan, and Lakeland on Zukey Lake became a popular destination. Waters' Pavilion stood near the train depot, and the Lakeland Hotel offered rooms and home-cooked meals. Around 1920, brothers Maggie and Baldy Girard built the Zukey Lake Tavern on the hillside of the lake's north shore; locals called it "The Dugout." During Prohibition, they turned it into a grocery store and added a mechanics garage to repair visitors' cars, then reopened it as a tavern in 1933 when the alcohol ban ended, and it again became a popular tourist destination. In the summer of 1882, Ann Arbor Savings Bank president Michael J. Fritz and former Ann Arbor mayor Warren E. Walker joined others to form the Ann Arbor Sportsman Club and built the first structure on Zukey Lake, a small wooden clubhouse. As travel improved and word spread about the hunting paradise, other sports enthusiasts arrived, and in 1888 the Oak Leaf Club erected a cottage and boathouse at Pettee's Grove.