2363 North Service Road, Oakville, Ontario in May 2015
Description
- Media Type
- Image
- Item Type
- Photographs
- Description
- In the spring and summer of 2015, the Trafalgar Township Historical Society took on the project of photographing the historic houses from the North Service Road north to Burnhamthorpe Road, from Ninth Line west to Tremaine Road.
2363 North Service Road is a deteriorating farmhouse with one remaining farm building which is still used by the golf course adjoining the property. It faces the busy westbound off-ramp of the Queen Elizabeth Way at Bronte Road.
Click on "Select" "Pages" to see the house from different angles. As you can see, the house is in need of repair to prevent further water and weather damage.
This house is in the old area of "Merton", Trafalgar Township. Early area settlers were David Utter, Joseph Smith, William Bates, Cornelius Tipps and Henry Cale. The name "Merton" was likely chosen to commemorate Lord Nelson (his English home with Lady Hamilton was "Merton Place") as other local villages had chosen Bronte and Palermo. The post office remained open until 1917 when it was replaced by rural mail service from Bronte.
The Mount Pleasant Methodist Church Cemetery can still be visited from the North Service Road. It lies alongside the south side of the North Service Road, west of Third Line. - Notes
- The photograph in the main record shows address at the golf course and the house in the distance as you drive towards it, west along the North Service Road.
- Date Of Event
- May 2015
- Subject(s)
- Local identifier
- TTACL000391
- Collection
- Trafalgar Township Historical Society
- Geographic Coverage
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Merton:
Ontario, Canada
Latitude: 43.4130799680018 Longitude: -79.7386359790039
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Merton:
- Copyright Statement
- Copyright status unknown. Responsibility for determining the copyright status and any use rests exclusively with the user.
- Recommended Citation
- 2363 North Service Road, Oakville, Ontario in May 2015
- Contact
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Trafalgar Township Historical Society Sponsor: Jeff Knoll, Local & Regional Councillor for Oakville Ward 5 – Town of Oakville/Regional Municipality of Halton
