'Brockway' may refer to:

★ Brockway, Wisconsin

★ Brockway, Pennsylvania

★ Brockway, USA - fictional location on the TV animated series ''The Simpsons''
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★ Archibald Fenner Brockway, British anti-war activist and politician.

★ Robin Brockway, British actor.

★ Derek Brockway, Welsh BBC weather presenter.

★ Zebulon Brockway, penologist and prison reformer.

★ Brockway Motor Company, Cortland NY 1912-1977
Brockway, California Lake Tahoe is an unincorporated residential community of 150 people and home of Brockway Hot Springs. A stop on the SS (Steamer)Tahoe in the late 1800s and early 1900s. People came from all over the globe for its healing properties. One of the worlds least sufuric hot springs. When a fire destroyed the hotel building (Also the post office!) in the late 1960s, Brockway became part of Kings Beach, CA. 96143
Brockway's hot springs, at the edge of Lake Tahoe near the state line on Tahoe's north shore, were an ancestral summer home for the Washoe people of northern Nevada, and there remain ancient grain grinding bowls worn into the giant granite boulders along (and some now submerged in) the lake. There is an exhibit in the Indian Room at the nearby Cal-Neva Lodge.
When the trans-continental railway was opened, the first road to Tahoe was pushed through from Truckee to Brockway (now Highway 267) over the Brockway Summit, and the hotel was built at the springs, served by a jitney. It originally was called Carnelian Hot Sulfur Springs, but was renamed in the late 1800s by one of its owners. A surveying error originally placed Brockway in Nevada, but it ultimately was corrected. An elaborate casino and dining room were added in the 1920s. The Brockway Pier, which remains, was a principal steamer departure point for the earliest emigrant tourists arriving by rail.
The old hotel included a number of cabins, two of which remain; one was remodeled as a home near the pool, and a second about two blocks away in the Brockway community. The resort was closed after the main hotel building burned in the 1960s and the casino building was torn down in the 70s by condominium developers. The hot springs themselves remain, encircled by a concrete structure at the lake's edge, but they are closed to any public use. Their water is used today through a heat exchanger to heat the large lakeside pool.
The residential community of Brockway grew up around the hotel, and between 1920 and the early 1960s was an enclave for movie stars of the day and the rich and famous, who built homes on Stateline Point, highlighted by Frank Sinatra's brief ownership of the nearby Cal-Neva Resort. Local residents included San Francisco's Hills brothers (coffee), and on the Nevada side of the point, the Buck (oil) family and Howard Hughes. The first "Crosby" was held at Brockway's golf course, at the intersection of 267 and North Lake Blvd. The Brockway Hotel served as the community center, Post Office and gathering point for breakfast or dinner. The community has its own beautiful beach on the lake (now open to the public), called Buck's Beach at the time (now Speedboat Beach) with rocky islands offshore.
In the 70s, developers bought the 20-acre lakefront hotel property and began building a planned 760 condominiums at the King's Beach end of the property, and redeveloped the pool and tennis facility at the far end, but soon ran our of funds. The property then slept for over 20 years as a quiet wooded oasis along the lake before being purchased by developers who built elaborate homes on the undeveloped portion of the property in the 1990s.
Today, Brockway is a quiet, wooded "old Tahoe" community of mixed primary and second homes, ranging from two-room cabins to elaborate lakeside mansions. The old hotel property itself now unfortunately is gated from the rest of the community (to keep Mother Nature in?), and the only way to explore it is to book a rental in the condominiums, called Brockway Springs. Their web site, www.brockwaysprings.com, has a link to numerous facilities of the old resort.

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