Here's the story even though I've probably already told you:
My Great great great great great Grandfather William Henry Coryell and his wife and kids homesteaded Coryell Island. No one is quite sure why they homesteaded the island that they did instead of one of the large islands surrounding it, but they made their choice. For awhile, when ferries were a super popular way to travel, there was a hotel on the island and the ferry would bring people from Chicago to stay there and catch lots of fish. At one point, the hotel was so popular there was even a post office on the island. In the seventies, after graduating from college my father, along with others helped tear the hotel down. The post office is still there, albeit empty.

My dad said there are two types of people with cabins on Coryell Island: rich people and people who inherited them. We are in the second group.


See Coryell Island? It's the little one across from Government Island. I bet you can't guess who owns Government Island.