This past week I obtained two new permissions.
One from a landowner who had a woollen mill operating on his property in the mid-1800’s and the visible remains of a c1870 house. The second permission came from a farmer who lives in a c1855 farmhouse, but more importantly, because he owns the land across the road from the woollen mill where another old homestead was located above the river.The old woollen mill and another 19thc house are in a ravine that is now heavily treed, I’ll have to wait until the fall to locate these last two sites.
On Wednesday afternoon I hit the remains of the c1870 house for 90mins, but it was very trashy and all I managed to find were a couple of interesting brass fragments. It was also very hot, so I decided to search here again early Thursday morning. Yesterday morning I detected the hay field across the road, where an early homestead was originally located. Unfortunately, the farmer had only cleared a 30’ wide x 400’ section of area for me to detect. I found the 1812 Thomas Halliday/Tiffin Half Penny, the 1850 Upper Canada Half Penny and the one-piece buttons close to the front of the site. I then headed back across the road to the c1870 site, where I proceeded to find a brass tag inscribed “St. Paul's Church Columbus”.St. Paul's Church - Columbus (English Corners), Ontario
Established 1835 - Demolished 1922
"The history of St. Paul’s (Anglican) Church in the former Whitby Township begins in 1835 when St. Paul’s Church, Columbus, was established by The Reverend Adam Elliott. Surrounding the church was a parish cemetery. The church cemetery, along with a woolen mill, store, school, and wooden sidewalks, a boarding house for the workers in the mill, were the central part of a village called Empire Mills. (Empire Mills has long since disappeared and only one home nearby was part of that very early village.)
Many of the earliest grave stones in St. Paul’s Cemetery are those of the pioneer workers in the mill. Most of those persons emigrated from Lancashire and Yorkshire in England.
The first St. Paul’s Church was constructed of logs, situated at the corner of what is now known as Columbus and Thornton Roads in Oshawa. This structure was burned in the Upper Canada Rebellion of 1837. A frame building was later erected on the same site and in August 1843 was consecrated by Bishop Strachan. This second building was also destroyed by fire in 1922."
Thanks very much for looking,
Dave
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