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I , Wag,.ko,wnsvz.l,.l_e History, ...-t_x-t-a==r7-r-ttcc---r.= ,7 t --e ,_ .- r-'"" s _ .-- CL. - 'j _ _ .. 'r1""r'l"'t"'=tel"=5r"refre.ee..ee'.e.T s_r V . _ r s "P ._ xv _ - TeV 2.u, at :1 ;._1\.-.;-x;;m . Ja H. r'", ' , i i ,' ‘ _ . e'i" o' .. ' T 7? ' _ m l' _ F _ listed above," 'Hem‘yl . ' teq .', -» ,. 1115.98 oij Brownsmlle Has martian one of the _1ars,s,e1ti 1n the (iyl,Ldieisr,, T3333? l","", ' .. b a _ l lparts in the villager, growth. One toua spot behin the e elep'aom,'i '? /' C, _ a I 1i , _ i "' iiiiii, i lar of his earliest ventures was a saw- othce, and ‘there burned to the 2.336319 alli:' ,» ll; 8133 Eng ' 15 _ ymill. This had its beginn'lgg on. a ground. Sometime later the old . 1 'sit back of the resent owning J , ' -------l With three large tamliles ta1rly :eseidence about Hie year 1867. Lat- Pclmer Church. was image! “and (Ly lla Hawkins Leach) lclose together it was deemed ‘necesé er, when he began to manufacture placed where it now scan s. Aac- jsrcitam became a township Oilsary to have a school, the first o _ _------ 'reatlons or various lorms were part but; l . : . i "V 1,, lthree schools which .har.tt . SEQ/Ed cheese boxes, he moved his mill to or the community life as the Years T ___ will County 111 1798 and settle-lr-rom that day to this. This nrst its present location south of the marched by. A library was tormed.l not commenced in 1799. Duringl school was an unused dwelling, village where water was available hrst in a small room beneath théi l . succeeding 40 years about loiwh'ere the grist mill now stands. Its from the ponds. This was a thriv- store, then in the little hall previ- j .tilers took up land on what isiiirst teacher was Mrs.. Abram Mat- ing industry through the years, be- ously occupied DY tht Home Circle ' _ Kn” '... L . ‘thews. engaged at eight dollars a mg sold by its owner to George, Bank, then outgrovvmg these ac-Y, “among known as the 10th con- month. Two years later a regular Edgington. After more years ot commodations, to its present Io-l; ' i."rsoriy which is actually that DOT-[schoolhouse was built about a half- prosperity, when more than 200,000 cation. ,. '; W” of the tenth concession lyinglmile north of the village. By 1860 cheese boxes were sold each year,, About 1919, a Village Improve-l I f-"cv"-'?.n Dely1er and the Diychiste'rTp"ivirs" numbered 75 in summer and the mill “has sold to John Scott, who ment Sociey was _formed which i 'rvn yt. Oi these 10 setlers, 01191133 in the winter months. In 1907 operated it until his death and financed the building of icementi . "15 David Dean, who lived sm thcga modern brick school was erected) whose family still control the prop- sidewalks and a tenr1ty,court, Pro-k . 17m now known..as the Wooll.eyi,south of the village on property erty and the manufacture of cheese mated the use, of hydro elotricity,l l firm. Hence, until this time, 'uhei,designated as a community park, boxes. -.which had come. to the district' in ii nation was known .as the Deanland in 1936 this building wasfur- The tile industry of Brownsville 11916.. and generally sponsored Week- l l - {Hitlernqnt- At_that tune, 1840, the ther enlarged so that education up also owes its origin to Henry Helm- 313’ evenings of entertainment. It 2 . 1 '.uvttiuct rs described by one by the to junior _matriculaion might be ka and to the extensive deposits of iannually held a mammoth garden ii [£11716 of fi1r,srtn,"whose words have completed under one roof. clay, suitable for tile manufacture, party which attracted 1ht:njsartlrs- lt 'C) recorded, as some of the finest.: By 1846 other. families had come which lie south of the village. Since lfrom near and'rar. Later: ttl the , amber land l have ever seen, lands: to swell, the growing settlement. about the year 1870 tile making has “939 period, this.o,rrP1zati0tywas, . iiiered With beech, maple and pine/ Land owners oh the Tenth Conces- continued with few interruptions, irevwed and carried out a .suailar l ‘Iiolasht being thrice to four feet! sion were John Loucks, Matthias with the bysipesi.changing hands ipr6yram of ,SOCI‘jal ’g9_ter_t%1f}ment l' ug the trunk. land was sold] Millard, Edward York, Joel. Nlms, trom Mr: Helmka _ to John Koor, and constructlte enf t; which ex- turrone dpllar an acre., ' ‘l Lewi.s " AVoolley, Daniel Hawkins, then to Al.ber.t Deller & Son, who .ten.d.ed to the time ot 1ti, Jf/lf,.,.?"],? . i": ggacht the settlement thereVinaiuss Ford, Joseph Cook, Jos- carry on the industy today._ it.dissolred to torrn a _ anon; So- T 1"»:horseyango trsls,i,01rle v/I/re),)',",: Th McDowell and .e.en.ry Down- Sops ot the Brixton family were .CleBtY- ' iville also, boasted", b liriuds and bo 0x. iam,1. ay throug W13- Those o.n the Ninth Conces- the first.lyotch.er.s to sell meat to the b Cs"?,':)','),'," osed of 16 players . rass ill to break gtl'i‘md on'y one 1.itt:. Wd?, were Benjamin! Hopkins,.James community, their Sh-Op being near. ran comp it was led by'JohmEear- Ltivt',n" T lb l ensity or,fyeirt IDennis, Daird)helps Andrew yas- where _ the community hill stands. _ler yearsi‘h. too roved ver It dg- t '53).) dahot t.. (No. a Highs ter, John Petch and John Allison. They-sold their.: business to'Mrr {HgTOH-h 'i', 1 ind‘in othy popu- Slinglv a: hézgrdtgiién' Settlemeni li) the Eleventh- COMES?“ were Sopeland, who m “if“ passed il.t 1:0 :lhinlitties atNaorrrie: of some 0e; flsrn- 1 llle marshes and su,L'err,r,7dr're1vtlhtf, lEdward and Jos.e.p.h Livingstone, sadism; o'llvners 1P, t at Ont e men have 'i'iiiViiedTiVarriigl1td1' “was stood belly deep.in meud and ii?“ on thed CTlivellth “serihhmes The CUga/n1irho'terkeeper A. D. Elliott, Joseph GrandY and 131;: 'rsr'cer, while the Wagon carrying thell iijejimailfm _,"11eiyil,, ”if i, . Glover, retired 'and was- su’cceeded bard Wood, the drummer, Isaac 1ysthers and- children and the preci- i' . disfait namel rec: tr rt, 5. £31“; lby Joseph Corbett in partnership Giner, a colored boy, who also was , bars household goods swayed uncer- lnmg ? the early C urc es l exqf'with Mr; Badze. 'tiii, "latter also a member and drove the band Wag- l mme behind them. The other by- if)“ or thewery first, hybrid, 1f5ell. i ran an undertaking establishment) on. ' _ _ . . I 2“}. was aimere path through the }through. his own errors, labore.d LO; just across the street Later Mr. l The burying grounds for the com-li :orest ier the west; suitable only 'hqld regular fe'cv1.ces, scyyet1m.es l Corbett acquired the ”retail oierier- munity was set aside. at DEImer It: travellers on foot,, and then on- !with the help Ot a circuit ridH-“hOii'al store, formerl owned b M: Mc- the next village. east of Browns: J' with a guide. _ , (p.r.eached about o.nce. a month. Prom} Diarmid and mi: establislirment .1135! ville. Here the first i burial was .Brixton Brown, whose name was lthls early _ beginnlng came . the; continued in that family until the; made in 1846, being thatof VVilliam .;li'en to the village at a later date iBaugham _Unlted Church, and to llpresent time V J" [,r.Dearsa, who met his death by drown? :(id‘come by the latter trail when ';these seerces the folk or the Deana While Supporting various indus- ling in a creek and whose body was 1‘: hrst reconnoitred the district in Steelement' went, usually on 'f‘OOt'!ltri€S, the community was essential- carried behind a team of mules to 2:1»; hope of finding a home for his Whatever occasion permuted: . _ ll ly agricultural and especially adapt- =the graveyard. Later, about 1909 a, $311133. The following spring, April arm“); 131'10W‘g) o?,rars's1h1?i'iii,:r,tssteerr),,itii,t to-dairy-farming Very early a second cemetery was set aside’_aiso_. 1511. 1e returned with hi _ . an ime lil ey eg TI T" -,'i chees _ J _ . _ .. .'., at Delmar. _ . F illd’household goods; grain 2:311: yice.s.1n his home.. He was helpedfll>r0m§tiniactfgyprgdilsctioflbltaglfbiiliitl Among the many who 1vallced iiiail‘herd of cattle diTv2i"b"iiii"nd" by itinerant preachers who _came Itine cheddar cheese for which Ox- these ways were the men of medi- -jrcj, time over the south route from, once irrseveral months. In 1859 the fbr County became famous This cine, the best known and most lov- ,thll)ot St. An account of this: first church waserected somewhere. factory burned and was re laced by high; _remembered probably bein :lerlod, preserved by the Brown near where the Borden Company (another (which Lll1idTldalrfsriT,7/ai1y- Dr. Henry Minshall, who practismgir 'ri-nib, describes the little dwelling Limited plant.novsr stands. Land for zed in its-structure the main ortion many years in the district- Man fat was rented from one 16561311 .the chutich..site was given by the lot the outgrown Methodist ghurch others there have been too, Whosy ' f Conrad, till their own could be built Brown 'iia.mily and later,cin 1872 , and stands toda y.- In 1903 thi (iii; goings and comings [have been e ", was 20 feet square with one roorri similar g1tt w.as made to the Bah-, sold to. the Borhén Milk ’Piosdiicts recorded and unrtejyeTbered I',',-, 'eilre the other. This for a famil . tist congregation when their church Company and thereait ilk .. those now living. Of the hund hi , y ll. Nor was that all! Friend ' was erected. The Methoditts.ifi" der and butter er 11l,il1 Joilt.' years and more that we can 1“ _ he Browns, named Lara 1305;: after-years built a large brlck stead of cheese "":'/ha"v"'1',' fnariii- Jace, upon, only a small fragnOOKl ' f'iiommg land, and in geherosigty _church and parsonage south ot “13 facturing is carried lr, the milk here and the” is available for “Less; f,'"-". so..great as, in the wilderness, crossroads on .pryerty, grante being received here and sent to snatch from 11315" and keeo s _ .-‘,"'-5 91de too was welcomed into ,them from the Hopkins family. Tillsonburg for roc ssin from iorgetfulness Thes " ' aitel _ f.,i'i,,,,li,tto'i,', house until their own :', With the land-3\vnersl_camli: the The early /Ju'ireosfiesi'anf Eoromed mostly been gleaned fromemém'ji :G‘Jlkl beZOcomplet_e. Twenty-two 1,rr',1tdheem,spaennd,san1:1) Lama Eibioefrgrrii among themselves a society called ties of the gray-haired they; "llt _ pal-S In a by 20 tOOt dwelling. So i tlt er an f, Oi”? . f), _ - -. l the Home Circle, which served as a women who now look back ov i n _ .lley lived until the early winter [Gazeteer and Directory we ZINC fraternal order social or . . Vcars and more and if th er 80 <irmmer’s end brought other “a; iii [this census of the tradespeople of and later as a fi , 1g’anlzatlon, 111 ll inaccuracie" tl ere be >2.“ " the settiem t [Mg (Brcxwnsvilie in 1860: Harris And- ll C, nanCla 90mph“? 'j') a :3 my are not d g “7‘: co t l en, James Den-. ) '_ . A ca ed. the Home Circle Bank. This liberate but tricks or the l ' e; ll», who took up land whi . _ 'rem, carpenter; Ovid P, Brown,; funct f . ' - , . “Emory s, 'w- 7 . ich IS still i4 _ -. . , _i loned for a raw years until a somewhat deflected by tum, ..l.:ned by Dennises to the present 'saddler) and shoe shop; Sam Nel Ibranch of the R . 1 E old N f th ' . The i lay. 2' _ ty 1 lson Brown, harness maker; JohnI up in the vill oya ank_ was set one: 9 he community have J,, . . . "- H, age, and as otten ha -,shared their memories willinsd r _ l msnlan, carriage and wagon mak ipens the w . . p p. d _ . h h . £3 and or: John Hall, carpenter;, Henry) , weaker organizalon fellim goo tait t at we Pight “Carl; _ trr . , lbefore the _ Ito th los ur- h _ a Ij‘lelmka. carpenter; Simon Pear, A greater. z ge er e o erltage or the f lson, shoemaker; Alex Scott, black- lv. J,,re/e,iri,teie,t,e,ee,t, hall stood on‘PQSt. (From, the Lawson Memorial t _ “may. William Sporvlourg, carpen- rcnr’gpp‘r‘elte the nrecpni tyrtcr mm Idlbrary, University of western _ iron: Irving Thompson, blacksmith; ntario.) , 3A. 13. (Slovax Royal Exchange Ho- . q - ------, , T Incl. George McShery, a plow man- .7 , l,sia,ct.tu-er and blacksmith. irryptrij, , Inf“! operated. The Premium . Prawn; . il-zlctory, winning a gold medal at) Lille provincial exhibiton for hisI plows. ,_ ,1, _" l f} T . ""i" .,us' ,. I, ""I g: _.e"-,-, _.,': , .Y,j, x-sais-ss' . -" " - 4‘s.- F “' . V Y