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    Cottesmore Hall was the largest summer home in Cobourg and was built in 1910. It was built and owned by Wallace H. Rowe, president of the Pittsburgh Steel Company. There was a magnificent iron fence

    King Street East.

    Dr. James Auston built this house in 1854 on church-owned land – hence the name Glebe Lawn. (Glebe being a plot of land belonging to an English parish church or an ecclesiastical office)It was sold i

    Sunnyside was built in the late 1860s by John Kerr, a lawyer and brother to Senator William Kerr. Later William Kerr's children inherited the property.

    Corilli Collard Field was born at Tavistock, Devon, England to John and Martha Field, who settled in Cobourg in 1834. He was a merchant in his father's store of Field & Brothers, importers of dry goo

    In 1815, Loyalist John Kelly Spencer purchased 160 acres in what is now the centre of Cobourg from the son of Eluid Nickerson, Cobourg's first settler. He subdivided it and in 1827 built the Poplars

    Northumberland Hall was built by George Strange Boulton around 1824. It was bought in 1874 by William Rosamond who had recently purchased the Woolen Mills. The Rosamonds were well known wool manufact

    One of the oldest houses in the village of Grafton. John Steeles was a business partner of Joseph Keeler and a founder and board member of Queen's University.

    Shown is Durham Hall, residence of James and Agnes McIntosh. Shown on the left is Jame and Agnes, on the right is their eldest daughter, Isabella McIntosh and son James McIntosh. On the steps are the

    Residence of Mr. & Mrs. James McIntosh

    Like many of the American Impressionists who journeyed to London and Paris to study, Alfred Hayward left Canada in 1876 to immerse himself in the swirling art world of these two cities. By 1876 he is

    John David Kelly (1862-1958) was born in Gore's Landing and was to become an artist of international renown. In 1870 his father moved back to the original homestead midway between Roseneath and Dartf

    John David Kelly (1862-1958) was born in Gore's Landing and was to become an artist of international renown. In 1870 his father moved back to the original homestead midway between Roseneath and Dartf

    The sport of curling in Cobourg pre-dates 1859 when an ad appeared in the local paper regarding a meeting for the purpose of re-establishing the Cobourg Curling Club. In the 1860s there were two rink

    Pioneers Naturalist And Writer Source: The Cobourg Sentinel-Star, August 25, 1965 Acquired: January 2008

    Foster Meharry Russell was a newspaper publisher from 1938 to 1969 and the founder of Cobourg-Port Hope Radio Station CHUC in 1957. His father Levi Charles Russell, managed the Millbrook Reporter in

    Letters addressed to Mr. Douglas Tait Source: Unknown Acquired: January 2008

    photograph; laying cornerstone; St. Michael's Roman Catholic Church; Leonard family

    Frederick Hall was born in 1829. He is the father of Albert Hall, who was born in 1854.

    Mrs. Hall was born in 1833.