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HomeMy WebLinkAboutClinton News-Record, 1975-07-24, Page 56• . -4 M1 pAtra8.-culootiNors-iitio*,,nfuRspAy,mx24,1975. 52Beck a M:* k -11,,014T ••• r "It Location saw succession of buildings 52--narthweStcorater of Albert IMO Princess Streets Copyright, 105 -- The building recently sold by J.W.-Ceuitter 10 the Becker Milk. Company at the northwest corner of Albert and Princess Streets is the latest in a succession of at least four buildings that have occupied the location, Before 1857. T.R. -Foster's Woollen Milt stood on. the corner. It was a carding 'and fulling mill, which is to say that it processed raw wool for spfnning. and rrecessed .cloth after it had been woven. Before the Rhttenbury Street Methodist Church was built. in 1851 (see 59) the Methodist congregation used the mill for church service and S,'unda'y school. By 1869 Mr. ,( Foster had moved his operation to a building on William Street I see 69) and John Bean was 'perating a. turning shop in the Princes S and Albert tireet premises, speCialaing, in bed- .teads. In all probability he was -.haring the building with Can- telon (or Canaan) Brothers — arriage and wagon. maters, for tiy 1869 they were in that line of business. tiy_1880 Cantelon's carriage .and wagon making operation was • being carried on in three ad- joining buildings - tai workshop. a, blacksmith • Shop., and - a shpwroom. all of which were destroyed by fire in 1880. Immediately to the north, Stephenson's brick blacksmith shop withstood the flames. has survived to the present day. and is used as aostorehouse by John Parker: The date Of construction of this old shop has not been found hut it is betieveti to be no earlier than 1872 and may not. date back that far. After the fire of 1880 Mr. H. . Ca nte!on bought out his brother' s interest and erected a new shop. It was of brick construction. 30 by 80 feet and two storeys high. In 1885 this shop was leased orsold. to P.W. Hayward who was in the carriage -making business, but in 1886 Mr. Hayward bought the old 'Presbyterian Church on James Street (see 15) and shifted alt or part of , his operationto that building. .In November 1899 Oakes, who had founded the Oakes ' Organ Company, selmrated from that company and fitted up Hayward's Princess Street premises for the manufacture of organs. This made three organ factories in the town, Doherty's (see- 71). the Clinton Organ Company (see 45). and G.F. Oakes at his establish- ment at Albert and•Princess. His term there, however. was short-lived, for in March 1891 Mr. Hayward sold the old Presbyterian Church to the Roman Catholic congregation and resumed occupance of the Princess Street property. necessitating Mr. Oakes' removal. He set up briefly in an unidentified building on the site of J.B. Racey's old store on the west side of Albert Street (see 51). Mr. Hayward's re-occupance was also brief, for in August 1892 the two-storey brick building was completely destroyed by fire. After Hayward's fire in 1892, the ,site reverted to H. Cantelon who in September 18924sold it to Jacob Milier who.. by June 1894 had started construction of a new two-storey frame -building "on'the employing S.J. Andrews to do the stonework for the foun- dations. This building was nearing completion when Mr. Miller's blacksmith shop on the south side et Princess (see 51) was burned in July 1894. The new building was completed in May 1895 with a bee- to raise the smokestack. This buitding sur- vived until torn down by J.W. Counter in 1968 when the present building was erectedk, Mr. Jacob Miller, grandfather Mrs. Doris Batkins. in addition to being a blacksmith was in the water supply business before the municipal water system was constructed. Amongst other water -related undertakings, he operated the sprinkling cart that kept the dust down on the main .areets. In 1899 he erected a windmill at the Princess Street site to pump water. In the following year, having surplus space in his two-storey frame building, he rented quarters to J.E. Creeley of Seaforth who installed a "skimming plant". In this operation 'milk was pasteurized and had the cream separated or "skimmed". The cream was sent to,.Seafortb to be made into butter, and the skimthed milk war returned to the. farmers. Milk and cream could be purchased at the plant by the public. This operation continued until Mr. Creeley opened a creamery in Clinton south of the railway station (see 19) in 1901. Aacob Miller's shop, built 1894, demolished 1968. 53 Queen and, John Sorgharn syrup made here 53—west side of Queen Street north of John Street • c copyright 1975 , Lr J1tnury 1881, on the site of the'present one -storey apartment building at 202, 204, and 206 Queen Street. ,S.J. Andrews erected a mill for producing sorghum syrup — a product similar to corn syrup. formerly used for human consumption and as an additive 464 %,-*** wjeieLtt JAW t A (TV -11. Carillon's Carriage Works, built in 1880, burned 1892. Stephenson's blacksmith shop, just showing on the right, still stands in 1915.. ea to stock feed. Mr. Andrews at the same time isseed instructions for the growing of sorghum which at that time. locally at least, was also known as sugar cane. In 1886 a cider mill, apparently in a separate building, was added to the establishment, and at the same -time steam power was. installed. The enterprise was enlarged again in 1894 by addition of a chopping mill. and in 1901 apple butter was added -to the list of products — presumably manufactured in the cider mill. It would.appear that by 1901 there were three if not four buildings on the site — the cider mill. the sorghum mill. the chopping mill and the engine house. In 1898 a pond was excavated north the site to supply water to the boiler through,a 34 inch pipe. This groupof buildings was apparently maintained until 1910 when the present cement block building was erected as a year- round factory for the production of cement blocks, tile and other concrete products. As early as 1908. Messrs. Andrews and Routledge had been in this line of busieess. and there is reference An 1901 to Mr. Andrews making cement pipes. Prior to 1906. the Mayor of the Town functioned as a magistrate. trying casesthat did not require a higher court. To relieve the Mayor of this duty. an office of Police Magistrate was created in 1906. and the first incumbent was S.J. Andrews. It is understood that his duties as magistrate were carried on in an office in the building on Queen Street. When the concrete products plant ceased operations has not been determined, but it was inoperative in the 1930's. After the Second World War it was Stanley's Met Market and an old slaughter house to the rear was reactivated. Subsequently the cement block plait was con- verted tin the preserirapartmetitS. Proud to serve Clinton and area. ;4) MURRAY TikYL911 - STERLING FUELS AGENT FOR CLINTON & DISTRICT FOR AU. YOUR HEATING NEEDS — FARM PETROLEUM — VALVOUNE OILS & GREASES CALL MURRAY TAYLOR at 482-9411 OR CAU. IN AT OUR NEW LOCATION 12 NORTH ST., N. CLINTON. • •