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PAGE 16. THE CITIZEN, THURSDAY, JULY 6, 2006.
1856
GraRg Twp. 2006
Molesworth store, circa 1890, still in business
Molesworth, at the east end of
Grey Twp. was first established in
1852 on Lots 51 to 54, Conc. 1, Grey
Twp. and neighbouring Wallace
Twp. of Perth County, along County
Rd. 86.
John Mitchell and his family built
their first home on Lot 53 near the
creek. County Rd. 86 had not yet
been surveyed and Mitchell believed
it would run along the waterway. His
store was built on the same lot.
A dam and sawmill were soon
built to serve the residents.
By 1869, a post office had been
built in Wallace Twp. and the
community of 74 residents had a
blacksmith, hotel keeper, shoemaker,
store owner, wagon and carriage
shopkeeper and a carpenter. In 1883,
Mitchell opened an apiary which
was still in use a century later.
Before the turn of the century,
there were also tailors, dressmakers,
barbers and a 'slaughterhouse for the
beef ring. The beef ring ceased in the
mid-1940s.
In the 1890s, Alex M. Patterson
built a store on the Grey Twp. side
where Molesworth Store still stands.
An egg grading plant to the rear
was destroyed by fire in 1959. A new
store was constructed with living
quarters above.
The pick up of the eggs from
farms stopped in 1968 'and the
grading station, established at the
original community school, closed
in 1971.
A chopping mill was built around
1900, on Lot 52. -A new mill was
constructed in 1924 on the northwest
corner of Lot 53, but it burnt in 1927.
It was rebuilt the following year. The
structure was rebuilt the following
year. The structure was demolished
in 1952 when County Rd. 86 was
widened. The present mill was
constructed in 1953. Renovations
and updates have taken place
frequently, including a new addition
on the front of 1999.
The Molesworth Cheese and
Butter company was created in the
early 1870 by a group of
shareholders.
Reorganized in 1957, it became
known as the Molesworth Cheese
and Butter Co-operative
Association. Russell Martin had
opened a cheese store during his
tenure, having been hired as the
manager in 1940.
The factory closed sometime after
1967 though a shop was open
offering cheese, honey and Dutch
products.
The first school was built on Lot
52. It operated until 1949 when the
Small lots
disappear
Continued from page 15
postmaster in 1855.
Dame's Hotel, known also as
Saurer Kraut, Union and Longs, was
rebuilt after a fire in 1889.
The Mueller plan was on Lot 16 of
Conc. 11 and 12.
Many of the small lots once
surveyed for Cranbrook disappeared
from 1880 to 1900 when elderly
residents sold the lots to farmers
eager for more land. This has
resulted in some unusufl lot lines.
Over the years there was also a
flax mill, baker, stone quarry,
slaughter house, pump shop, cooper
shop, wagon and carriage shop,
brick yard, chopping mill,
blacksmith, body shop and broiler
barns.
discord among the Presbyterians,
Methodists and Congregationlists. A
United Church was built west of the
school in 1927. By 1947, the
diminishing congregation was
invited to join the Presbyterian
Church across the street in Wallace
Twp.
Telephone service came to
Molesworth in the early 1900s. It
was taken over by Bell Canada in the
1950s.
local school board purchased the
former United Church. USS No. 4
served the needs of the children until
1965 when a central school was built
near Ethel. The building remained in
use for Wallace Twp. students for
two years until the board moved
them to Gowanstown.
The first church in the community
was a Congregationalist which many
Presbyterians joined until such time
as they had a large enough number
for a church of their own. It was built
in the early 1850s, a quarter mile
north of Molesworth.
Though the Presbyterians had
their congregation by 1863, they
continued to use the
Congregationalist Church until
1868. That first church was erected
just north of the present structure
which was built in 1898.
Today's Presbyterian Church
stands on the lot of the first hotel in
the hamlet.
Church union in 1925 brought