05/14/2026
Bygone Businesses: Long Lake Resorts - The Guise family, Peter and Rosa Mary ‘Angst’ Guise and their ten children, came to Long Lake from Luckey, in Wood County, Ohio, and homesteaded or bought property from the Cline family in about 1888. Peter and his family engaged in diversified farming and logging, and with their children reaching adulthood, he and Rosa did like so many of the pioneers did, they started splitting their property between their interested children and real estate development, i.e. Long Lake 5-acre Tracts. Two of their sons went into business on the lake.
Son John Leo Guise early on worked at forest industries, while his wife Anna Clara ‘Kennedy’ Guise furnished meals for loggers and mill workers at the lake. This eventually led to the opening of a public eating place and the founding of a popular resort operated under various names, Lake View Place Resort, Long Lake Summer Resort, and Lake View Hotel & Camp Resort which lasted into the 1940s. Their son, Purcell Leo “Percy” Guise and his second wife, Lucille ‘Reagon’ Guice, later took over the operation, which included a hotel, cabins, restaurant-tavern on stilts over the lake, and corrals, where local rodeos were held, keeping it in business for several more years.
Next door, son Anthony Michael Guise and his wife, Dora Christina ‘Miller’ Guise farmed before starting the Y-NOT Lodge Resort, named by turning his name “Tony” around. This enterprise later became a retirement and nursing home. They sold the business in 1940, returning to farming. The Y-NOT Lodge lasted many more years under different ownership.
(additional photos courtesy of Klinghammer-Sheely Family). The map is a 1909 plat map.
