Goshen WI Tweedsmuir Community History, Volume 4, p. 6

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ioi ' feee B--y. _ § | + a w j Goshen station | . ,W | served many fi | ' l From page B--] renovated this log home but | 4 | in 1980 this very historic. the Canadian NMatfonal dwelling caught fire and | 1/ : s burned to the ground. Thus Railway (CNR). This system § i . | : 5e Ihxina! ended Goshen's historic | ended in the 1950's, bringing ¢, f home"> but lits to an end the era of local si01e, aik ' | M . _ romantic and exciting years | - train travel in the communi-- of service will long bell | ty. & a fl .f Another famous landmark remembsred P the istory of | \ for many years at Goshen the community. Corners was a little square _ Tewar explaingd Goshen's | log house owned by a M Rajlway Station served many \ | {\JefiblttIWht?fwafit?l W%a"ffé,by travellers and a resident, rage. in tms flittie Ourldmng Morrig Miller, remembers many yards of wool good$s the trains and its passengers |R ?nd zivOOItletn blar:l(tel:s V::crlz , as they boarded for Arnprior | '}"'; (t)1u' o meet Ihe I}t | and Ottawa going east j of of the thriving community. _ Renfrew and beyond to the ' In the early 1920's rural | wesy, , c.l mail came into being with a | mail box at the end of each _ '"'Down through many | . lane. Carswell Post Office years of changes, the Goshen | disappeared and a rural mail Hall _ became _ sadly carrier brought the mail in delapidated and was aban-- | from Renfrew around by doned as a lonely vigil of | Burnstown and Goshen days gone by and its silent | became Renfrew RR 1. The memories,'"' Dewar stated. _ | Carswell Post office building _ . } of%c;yho;;;.ortam Ain every sold the logs from the community, Goshen Corners g;;lslllen I;Iall ;'1' Sor(l)la" from | also had its own blacksmith !l?ote\' Of {dds §, It was | shop which was operated by WIth this money the ladies 1 James Campbell. were able to erect the plaque "History tells us the ;)}1 the cairn for the Fifth | | blacksmith made a big lock lm? Corner to leave as a | and a very large key for the asting landmark .and tribute post office home," Dewar t0o the early residents who | | noted. called this little area and its | /20 | four dwellings home. t «* The family of Andrew and * 0 ~~__ Jean 'Stewart lived in the (Goshem WI~ _ ~=®~ & c "post office home'" until The Goshen Women's in-- _ ' 1920 and then moved to Kin-- stitute was organized on bu.rn. John E and Ruby September 14, 1%4. }, Miller spent many years -- looking after "'store and sta-- Among the founding 5 m | .\ _ _ fion""_until both became members were South Ren-- a» Jqa t 1(¥ , i4 B «YJ P «4 BE <I p s ,<] J . i P 4 : ~J] P AQ P A 3 uP t ait 1P\ an M C

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