Winona WI Tweedsmuir Community History, Volume 1, Part 1, [1961]-[1982], p. 7

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' . I /? é£&""7 aid I ' - a" V w , W I N 0 N A. .giiEV'"' \The ar -w ich we are considering is situated in the extreme north' -' easternX ,' of the township of SALEFLEET in the county of WENTWORTH, mm" and .13 bounded on the sass by the dividing line between the'township of Saltfleet in the county of Wentworth and the township of North Grimsby in the county of Lincoln; on the'SOUTH by the irregular base of the r Niagara escarpment; on the WEST by the dividing line betweeanots No.10 and No. 11; and on the NORTH by the south shore of Lake Ontario. \It is two and_ene half miles in length and about one and one half 5gze. miles in width, varying with the shorelline of the lake and the base of the escarpment. ' With the coming of the Loyalists, Augustus Jones, Surveyor, laid out , the CONCESSIONS 50 chains or aboutfiS/B of a mile (.or as the settlers 'Con/CIS'WS said " half a mile and half a quarter") apartlan'd numbered the «lots consecutively between the concessions in each township. ' Each block contained two lots of one hundred acres each, excepting the broken front. - -- . ' From the lake running south to the base of the escarpment, there are the BROKEN FRONT Concession, the FIRST Concession, the SECOND Concession, -L475 and that part of the THIRD Concession lying below the escarpment. . ' -The LOTS start numbering from the east to'west. There is approximately 3000 acres in the area. The hamlet of WINONA lies almost in the cehtre of the area, a little -to the south and east. - h. »" T ' , ./ . 4 V V _ _-'_ '-____ , 9 ' ."f."':--'--~ f'f' '--'--",_' -.."";'3:' Z .3?- '.' E 7 » 9 '_,---- - A.Ofi 0. 5 1931' He made an accurate plan.of Township Ro.7, in the District of Nassau Po? from a scale of forty chains to one inch. The lots are twenty chains by fifty each, with an allowance of one chain upon each second lot, and one betw e Acacl o. e r ' . f _ v _ a s}~ 'piwtimn h agreMeg numbered - .v- s---- a..- from left to right with No. ldupon each concession. nqfizi' This blueprint of SALTFLEET was signed " Augustus Jones Dy.Surveyor"and dated "Nassau 25th'0ctober l791.' -

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