Land Development-

What an exciting time to sell camp lots: May, 1929

I can just imagine Gaston Campbell and William Lavin, rubbing their hands together  in glee, at all the money they were about to make on the on selling lots at Cobbett’s Pond Park.  It was a slam dunk; camp lots overlooking a beautiful lake. What they didn’t count on was a stock market crash and a depression. The Lowell Sun ad was from June 27, 1929. In the end, many lots were given away as premiums when you had purchased a certain amount of canned goods or coffee at stores in the Malden Massachusetts area. Sadly, you can’t book a profit until you close the sale.