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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Citizen, 2006-07-06, Page 12HENFRYN TILE YARD 1981 JAMESTOWN BX93 COUNTRY VIDEO DANCE Saturday, July 8th 9:00 pm - 1:00 am BMG Community Centre Ice Pad Age of majority ONLY Tickets: Advance $8.00, At Door $10.00 For advance tickets call 519-357-3445 or 888-868-7513 --777-7-12ir w For Tickets and clothing contact Leona Armstrong 519-887-6753 or Alvin McLellan 519-887-9456 Gr y welcomes residents and visitors to its 150th anniversary celebrations July 7th, 8th and 9th. Co-Chair Leona Armstrong 519-887-6753 Co-Chair Alvin McLellan 519-887-9456 • Registration and Reception - Grey Municipal Office • Talent Show (7:00 p.m.) - Grey Municipal Office • Community Ball Tournament & Beer Gardens (7:00 p.m.) - Ethel Park • Ball Tournament continues - Ethel Park • Parade (12 noon) - Grey Central School to Ethel Park • Beer Gardens (12 noon) - Ethel Park • Opening Ceremonies (1:30 pm) - Ethel Park • Children's Activities & Fun Fair -.Cornerstone Bible Church • Century Farm Displays Community & School History Displays - Alexander's Field (Ethel) and Cornerstone Bible Church • Fish Fry (4:00 pm - 7:00 pm) - Grey Municipal Building • Dance - Marion's Country Band - Ethel Hall • Dance - BX93 Country Video - BMG Community Centre Ice Pad Firefighters'/Hall Board Breakfast - 8 am - 12 noon - Grey Fire Hall Grey Open Golf (8:30 am - 4 pm) - Cranbrook Golf Course Grey Scavenger Hunt ( 10 am - noon) - Ethel Ball. Park Century Farm Displays, Community & School History Displays ( 10 am - 4 pm) - Alexander's Field (Ethel) and Cornerstone Bible Church Beer Gardens - (12 noon) - Ethel Park Old-Fashioned Games (1 pm - 4 pm) - Ethel Park Beef BBQ (4 pm - 7 pm) - Grey Municipal Building Community Church Service & Choir ( 7:30 pm) - Grey Municipal Building Fireworks (Dusk) - Grey Central School Firefighters Breakfast' Marion's Country Dance BX93 Dance Grey Open Golf Scavenger Hunt Old-Fashioned Games Souvenirs Children's Activities Calvin Semple 519-887-6669 Jim Struthers 519-887-6329 Mark Beaven 519-357-3445 Bruce Fischer 519-887-6225 Jane Stewart 519-887-9234 Brenda Boyer 519-887-6153 Sherrie Oliver 888-868-7513 Marie Blake 519-291-5466 Talent Show Parade/Century Farm Displays Comm./School History Fish Fry Beef BBQ Mervyn Bauer Rhonda Fischer Brad Knight Joan Bateman JoAnn McDonald Diane Diehl 519-887-6493 519-887-6225 888-868-7513 519-887-6248 519-887-6570 519-887-9442 PAGE 12. THE CITIZEN, THURSDAY, JULY 6, 2006. or Grey Twp. named uture English PM Named for Charles, the second Earl of Grey, who eventually became prime minister of England, Grey Twp. was part of Crown Land called Queen's Bush. Lots were officially put up for sale in 1854. Jamestown The first structure to mark the location of Jamestown was a frame inn at the juncture of the Maitland River and Seaforth-Wroxeter trail, County Rd. 12 (Brussels Line). The inn, built by Thomas J. Moorehouse burned in 1864. The name , of the community apparently was derived for a news correspondent of The Huron Expositor between 1835 and 1860, James Aitcheson. There were also numerous Jameses who lived in the area. The post office was established in 1893 with James Lynn, then J.J. Vincent as postmasters. Prior to the turn of the century, Jamestown had three hotels, a shoe shop, general store, wagon shop, blacksmith and harness maker. No church was built as Jamestown was considered too small. Businessmen began to sellout by the 1880s as improved roads made travel to other communities easier. The general store realized a successful period when Duncan and Will McDonald purchased it in 1905. The hamlet finally got a meeting hall in 1901 when an old church was moved from Salem in Turnberry Twp. It was renamed Victoria Hall. It was destroyed by fire in 1910. A new red brick building was completed in October, 1911. When the stagecoach stopped running between Brussels and Wroxeter in 1913, the post office closed and rural mail delivery took over. Though used throughout the world wars for the packaging of goods for the soldiers, Victoria Hall fell into disrepair through the 1950s and 1960s. It was sold for taxes in 1968 and eventually torn down. The old general store was removed in November. 1998, after many years of neglect. Several families still live in the Jamestown area and one construction-related business on the Morris side remains. Tindell Tindell was the community located at the Wellington Grey and Bruce rail station on County Rd. 19 ',Ethel Line) just south of Ethel. At one time there were stockyards, weigh scales, a grain elevator and 18 lots surveyed to the west, north and south of Clark Street. John Siemmon had laid out the hamlet prior to the arrival of the railroad in 1873. The station was named Ethel. The Station Hotel was built on the north corner of Mill and Clark Streets in 1872 and a store was added across Clark Street in 1877. The store was changed to a car garage in the early part of this century. The hotel burned in 1910. All the buildings used for • businesses are gone, but a few houses remain. The railroad was abandoned in 1991 and the lines lifted in 1993. Henfryn Located on Lots 34 and 35 (Henfryn Line) of Conc. 8 and 9, Henfryn had the advantage of both the Maitland River and the Wellington Grey and Bruce railway. E.C.K. Davies purchased the land in 1872 and operated a sawmill. The railroad came through the following year. In the latter part of the 19th century, Henfryn had a brewery, store, hotel, stable, an Anglican and Methodist church, sawmill and brick and tile yard. Once a hotel of choice for rail travellers from Kitchener to Goderich, the hotel disappeared in 1901 when it was destroyed by fire. The railroad station was built in 1876. St. David's Anglican Church, which had been built of .Henfryn brick in the 1880s, closed in 1964. The Methodist Church was situated south of the Anglican Church, across Davies Street. It was built in 1881. Continued on page 13