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The Citizen, 1999-12-29, Page 21THE CITIZEN MILLENNIUM ISSUE, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1999. PAGE 21. Township of Hullett J lanilels stay alive through clubs, businesses Summerhill store-1970 Walkerburn/Monteith Mills sawmill Hullett Twp.’s first official munic­ ipal meeting was held in 1848 when it was still a union with McKillop Twp. It became independent in 1852. There were several settlements in Hullett Twp. which thrived for peri­ ods of time due to the location of the post offices. Some still remain as the name for residential gatherings. Many are only remembered in old history books. Kinburn Kinbum, known as Constance in the early years, was a community of importance in the early days of Hullett Twp. The hamlet, the centre of the east­ ern part of the township, was first settled by Raphael Stephenson who called it Kinburn. However, when the post office went in, the name was changed to Constance because another postal outlet was already called Kinbum. Constance is located at the inter­ section of Cone. 6/7 (Summerhill Rd.) and Huron County Rd. 15 (Kinbum Line). Wesley Methodist Church, a frame structure, was built in Kinbum in 1870. Twenty-four years later a new site was chosen and the current church was erected. It closed in 1967. For about 10 years in the last part of the 19th century, Presbyterians held services in the Temperance Hall. The post office was in the black­ smith shop until a new building was constructed east of the church. The post office closed in 1914 when rural mail delivery took over. The Templars Society used a frame building west of the church until it was sold in 1919. In those early days there were two blacksmiths, two stores, a wood­ working shop, a hotel, church, tem­ perance society, school, cheese fac­ tory and many retail shops. A Canadian Order of Forresters Society formed in the mid 1880s. From a time in 1890 when the community had two stores, the resi­ dents had none after 1967 when the one remaining establishment burned. A shop was reopened in 1970 in the basement of the old Forresters Hall. The cheese factory closed in 1898. The woodworking shop, stable and house burned in 1940. A hotel once stood on the north­ west corner of the hamlet. It is recalled by elderly residents that there once was eight places to buy whiskey in Kinbum. When the rural schools were closed in deference to central schools, the Forresters took it over. Today, the community remains as a residential centre. Summerhill Summerhill sat on the east side of Baseline Rd., a few kilometres south of Auburn. Named for a founder’s wife, Somer Hill soon became Summerhill. St. Peter’s Anglican Church was erected in 1855 and the Bible Christian Church in 1875. When support for the Bible Christian Church faded, the Orangemen bought the building The post office was established in 1887. By the late 1960s all that remained was the Orange Hall and a store. Harlock Harlock, situated at the comer of Cone. 12/13 (Hullett-Mckillop Rd.) Kinburn Methodist Church now a home Summerhill Foresters’ Hall and Sideroad 5/6 (Harlock Line) had a post office, two stores, a black­ smith and S.S. No. 6. One store was located in the north­ west corner in 1877 and another on the southeast comer in 1882, along with the blacksmith shop. The original log school was on the northwest side until a new building was constructed on the southeast side in 1875. It continued in use until the centralization of schools in the mid 1960s. It was later sold and used as a church for a period of time. A sawmill operated from 1872 into the 1890s. on Lot 10, Cone. 12. There was also a lime kiln. An apple evaporator ran for only one year because it burned. Walkerburn Walkerbum, a short distance from Auburn on Blyth Creek, was a thriv­ ing community until the woollen mill closed in 1912. There was once a sawmill, grocery store and Witmer post office. Walkerburn or Monteith was named for the first settler, Robert Monteith. The frame structure built in 1928 replaced the log school S.S. No. 11. The Walkerburn club is still very active in the community, keep­ ing the name of the pioneer settle­ ment alive. Bandon Bandon was situated in the back section of Cone. 9 (Winthrop Rd.), west of Sideroad 15/16 (Bandon Line). In its prime, there was a store, post office, hotel, saw mill and grist mill with a lime kiln and cider mill a short distance away. The first records of the community can be found in 1856 when Lawrence Melville purchased Lot 16, Cone. 9. In 1875, he registered a village layout for Hartford, north of the river. However, Hartford was not approved as the name for the post office so it became Bandon. Shortly after the turn of the last century, Bandon was abandoned. () Proposed road names Londesboro Hotel Grey Township From earning official municipality status in 1856, Grey Township has become a major agricultural township in Huron County. With a past rich in memories, the township enters the new millennium prepared to forge new ones.