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In November.. 192. a Golf Club
was formed la. town. tin the.
following summer the Park was
W' out as a course but was
found to be too small. The "Hi
farm at the foot of Rattenbury
Street" was then acquired, It was
apparently out of Use in the
following year.
The history of the Golf Club has
not been traced, but during -the
1930`s most of Charles Mid
dloton's° farm on the west side of,
the town, limits on the Huron,
Roali, and including land on the
south side of the railway VI,
Goderich, was a well developed"`
golf course.
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a. factory
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Cstr began
50 -,-we Moot
Shipley Street
betwee0 Princess
arid .John Streets
The Ildspltal
tv's race gale osed a ter nal
cet?r*ck,
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• M the north: end of.North Street
on theresent Andrews farm.
Silas Andrews opened a halfm_le
racetrack in t8fl. It !NUS
"surrnded :by an eight -foot
board fence, _ and was used at
timesfor fairs.
The, date of 'its closing is not
known, but there is a.story thatit
was etosed toliowing €t minor riot.
Some booth ope tors at a €air or
race were seedling_ liquor .illegally
when they. were descended upon
suddenly by Constable `Paisley
and aids wielding .clubs and
bnots. The miscreants were pit to
flight, and the track was not
cned thereafter- - according to
the story.
It milt be added here that the
progenitor of the present
Andrews famil , Silas Andrews,
came to Clinton in 18.66 from the
Ottawa Valley op i bought a farm
north of John Street, The house
across ' Shipley Street from the
ttcspital is 9Pderstaod to be the
original .homestbad built by Mr.
Andrews.
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The first hospital in Clinton was
at the corner of Cutter and
Victoria St ets•(sce 13). In 1922
11. McTdggga donated his.
father's residence to form • the
nucleus of the present hospital.
The _- @ father, Malcolm
NicTaggart had founded the
fanning milfactory that
eripinatly stood on the site of the
Library Park: '(see 64 and 46). The
house would deserve to be called
a small mansion. but its history
.prior to becoming a hospital has
not been ascertained. Various
remodellings and additions have
been made t� the building since it
became a hospital, t