Rolston

One of the seven or eight primary stopping points along the Portersville Bay coastline for many tourists during the early years of the Twentieth Century was the Rolston Hotel. The Bay Shore railroad maintained one of the smaller open-air covered pavilions for passengers, as well as a freight platform and a fruit shed for produce and other commodities. Rolston was located about three-quarters of a mile east of Coden.

An obscure map reference also calls this stop Nelson.

The Rolston Hotel was a very popular tourist attraction, as attested to in this photograph at right. This large, ornate pavilion on the back of the hotel was located out in Portersville Bay, attached to the main house by a long pier. Guests enjoyed parties, dances, and other social functions in the pavilion.