HORACEVILLE

NAME: Horaceville COUNTY: -- ROADS: 2WD GRID: 1 CLIMATE: Snow in Winter, Warm Summer. BEST TIME TO VISIT: Summer

COMMENTS: Semi-ghost. REMAINS: Original buildings throughout newer ones.

Having had a distinguished career in the British army, his reward was a land grant on the shore of the Ottowa River. It was there that Hamnet Kirkes Pinhey began a new life as an importer, insurance broker, and politician, all with considerable success. He created his own village on his estate at Pinhey Point on the Ottowa River. He constructed a grist mill and provided log houses for employees and in the true tradition of feudal England, he built a massive limestone manor house for himself complete with small but threatening cannons on the terrace. In the village, there was a church, stables, a powder magazine, and barns for the livestock. In time, the land was donated to the Pinhey’s Point Foundation. The Foundation has restored much of Horaceville and has opened it to visitors including the manor house. Submitted by: Henry Chenoweth

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