The home at the centre of Block A
Description
- Media Type
- Image
- Item Type
- Photographs
- Description
- The Historical Society is particularly indebted to Waitstill ‘Waity’ Croswell, Joyce Crossman, Jack Crossman, Orma Quinn, Lynn Abbot Lennox, the Wellever family. Richard Moore, Norma Hill-Watt and the late John Macfie for the photos and associated descriptions.
- Notes
- The home pictured here was located at the centre of Block A in the original survey plan of the village. Its construction, at least in part, predates the village survey plan by up to a decade. The front of the home was originally of log construction and shows on the township survey in the Muskoka and Parry Sound Atlas in 1879. At that time, the home sat at the end of a trail which branched from the ‘road’ connecting the Nippissing Road below Magnetawan and the Great North Colonization Road near Dunchurch. The trail to the house became Mary Street in the village plan. In the 1880’s a large frame addition was completed, and the Croswell Boarding House came into being. In 1895, Charles and Phoebe (Dixon) Croswell purchased Block A from John and Mary Ann (Taylor) Croswell. In 1920, the home was transferred to William and Pearl (Wager) Croswell
- Place of Publication
- Ahmic Harbour, Ontario
- Subject(s)
- Local identifier
- 00122
- Collection
- Whitestone Historical Society Archive
- Geographic Coverage
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Ontario, Canada
Latitude: 45.66681 Longitude: -79.78297
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- Whitestone Historical Society
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