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"Charmed With Its Loveliness" ~ Late Century: 1860s - 1890s 213 Mount Pleasant Post Office, c1910, demolished 1980s. This post office, one of several as postmasters changed, was on the north-west corner of the junction of the Mount Pleasant Road and Burtch Road, the site of the first store opened by Thomas Racey in 1812 and burned in 1814. The building began as an inn, probably kept first by Capt. Thos. Perrin, then becoming the Bingham Inn (1850) prior to being sold to Solomon Sayles in 1866. The building was also known as the Mount Pleasant Hotel and the Canada House. It became the post office when bought by John McLaren, postmaster after John Randall Ellis. The Orange Lodge operated out of the second floor rooms. The post office and general store were the destination of many a rural drive. The buggy driver is Mr. McLaren's daughter, Mrs E. Lloyd Jones, the child on the sidewalk is her daughter Anna. When not busy, Mr. McLaren sat under the chestnut tree at the left smoking his pipe and visiting. Up to 1876 the telephone represented only a scientific gadget that could convey a human voice but a few feet. Therefore, its inventor Alexander Graham Bell of nearby Tutela Heights, needed to conduct experiments of his new form of communication over longer and longer distances. Home from teaching in Boston in the summer of 1876 he was ready to try his equipment on the telegraph line between the Dominion Telegraph Company in Brantford and A. Wallace Ellis' store, the local telegraph agency, in Mount Pleasant. He strung wire along the fence posts from his homestead to the store. On August 3 Alexander went to Mount Pleasant while his Uncle David Bell stayed in Brantford. At this time the technology allowed only one-way communication, therefore they set a certain time for Uncle David to recite a passage from Shakespeare for the