150 years old this year...
Burlington celebrates its 150th birthday with a week of special events
There are presentations and walking tours as well as a newly created self-guided driving tour of the city that covers rural communities in the north as well as urban areas in the south.
https://www.thespec.com/news/hamilto...267d26837.html
Mark McNeil
The Hamilton Spectator
Tuesday, August 1, 2023
Maybe it was clean living, good genes or Oil of Olay.
Whatever it was, Burlington sure doesn’t look 150 years old.
But that’s the birthday being marked in August. The community is celebrating its sesquicentennial with a series of special heritage events beginning Saturday.
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Burlington began in 1873 with the merging of the villages of Wellington Square and Port Nelson. Both had busy, well-established ports for shipping grain and lumber to market.
The land on which Burlington began had previously been owned by Mohawk leader Joseph Brant after he was granted 3,450 acres near Burlington Bay for his service to the British during the American Revolutionary War. After Brant’s death, James Gage from Stoney Creek bought nearly 340 acres of land in 1810 and mapped out the Wellington Square village site.
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Map from the (late?) 1800s:
Brant Street near what is now Lakeshore Rd. (formerly Water St.), 1940s:
The Brant Inn, near the foot of Maple Ave... I'm guessing it was 1930s based on the automobiles:
Freeman Station, early 1900s... when young (1970s to early '80s) I took many train trips to Windsor with my mom and sister from this station. It's now
beside the firehall on Fairview not far southwest of its original site:
St. Luke's Anglican Church, photo date not noted but it was built in 1834:
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