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    Cramahe Archives does not hold the original item in its archives, but has a high quality digital image. Scotch tape damage...

    Cobourg Daily Star, Saturday, August 31, 2002 The old Cramahe Township Town Hall Sketch and text by Barry King "The pride of Castleton, this well-proportioned building resembles a temple in design. Dominated by the grand arched entranceway, the front façade is patterned with several masterful examples of the bricklayer’s art. ...

    Text on image: 1953

    Clarence McKague (1908-1998)was a highly dedicated teacher, a Northumberland and Durham Board of Education elected trustee 1969-76, a Sunday School teacher and, for many years, Secretary-treasurer of the Castleton Cemetery. The son of John McKague and Lena McGregor, he and his four siblings (Eric, Ethel, Leila and Florence) were raised ...

    Written on front: “Verna” [lower left front] Written on back: “N. Warner”

    Printed on postcard: Greetings from Castleton

    Postmarked: "Warkworth, 22Jan09 Ont" Written on front: The Only Town on the Map - Castleton

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    Cramahe Archives does not hold the original item in its archives, but has a digital image. Typewritten caption text under image from the collector. See the publication - How Firm a Foundation: A History of the Township of Cramahe and the Village of Colborne in Cramahe's Digital Archives (3bk), p.90 ...

    Unsigned, but credits an interview between John Bowen and George Wallace Davies. Post 1960, typewritten...

    Cobourg Daily Star, Saturday, January 26, 2002 The Doyle House, Castleton Sketch and text by Barry King "Just north of the old Cramahe Township Hall on Percy Street in Castleton stands a charming red-brick home in the familiar Ontario Gothic style. Of particular interest is the unusually paned Gothic-arched window ...

    Photographic print originally attached as an illustration in a local history project - its caption reads: “… where the cenotaph is today.”

    Written on back: “Ghent – at Geo. Tate’s House”

    Written on back: “Castleton Continuation School, March 1947”

    Castleton Continuation School, 1934

    This image was scanned from the publication - How Firm a Foundation: A History of the Township of Cramahe and the Village of Colborne in Cramahe's Digital Archives (3bk), p.141. The caption reads: "Onetime home of Iva Fallis at 1804 Percy Street, Castleton" Argyris, Eileen. How Firm a Foundation: A ...

    Cobourg Daily Star, Saturday, May 25, 2002 Sketch and text by Barry King "Old village storefronts are a vanishing breed, This sturdy commercial structure was once Harry Hart’s butcher shop and later Lawrence Naish’s egg-grading station. The early frame structure, now missing its shady verandah and roofline bracketing, recalls a ...

    Colborne Chronicle, Thursday, January 11, 2001 Sketch and text by Barry King "Though the present brick church was dedicated in 1865 after an extensive remodeling, its origins date from 30 years earlier in its original frame structure. With the elevating of the building, the addition of a basement, new choir ...

    Cobourg Daily Star, Saturday, June 28, 2001 The Oriental Hotel, Castleton Sketch and text by Barry King "Built by Timothy S. Giroux, a hotelkeeper from Norham, the Oriental Hotel has dominated the northeast corner of Spring and Percy Streets in Castleton since 1890. Although its projecting balcony has been enlarged ...

    Saturday Morning Post, Cobourg, November 18, 1989 The Purdy Milling Company Sketch and text by Barry King "Standing tall and quiet, the old Purdy Mill casts long thoughtful shadows across the road that finds its way to Castleton [County Road 25 in 2018]. Amid autumn’s misty amber days, the venerable ...