When the Endicott House was built by S.C. Moore in 1881, it was first known as Moore’s Hotel. Solon P. Colby writes, “When the cellar for Moore’s Hotel was dug…workmen found forty or fifty gouges, celts and spearheads*. They also found a clay pot containing about three quarts of red ochre. The pot was crudely made without decorative markings and resembled a type known as Early Woodland.”

The Endicott House was located where the upper parking lot of the Boardwalk Bar & Grill (previously the Weirs Beach Waterslide) is today. It burned down or was taken down in the late 1930s.

*A gouge is a stone woodworking tool with a grooved channel, used by the Native Americans for heavy-duty tasks, like hollowing out logs to create dugout canoes. A celt was an ungrooved, stone ax head, used for felling trees, or as a weapon.