“Influenced by the growing patronage of the hill (Stone Haven), Miss Olivia White in the early 1880’s bought the Seth Pinkham house on Bickford’s Island and enlarged it for summer guests, naming the place The Shiloh. The Pinkham family moved to the Jedediah Towne home next to the old store lot. Soon afterward Miss White married and sold the hotel to Mr. and Mrs. John Bradley, who renamed it The Wabun. In the fall of 1887 it was burned. The lot remained vacant until Mr. Leavitt built the present residence in 1904.”
Melville C. Freeman in the “History of Cape Porpoise"