LEBANON
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| NAME: LEBANON COUNTY: ONTARIO ROADS: 2WD GRID: CLIMATE: Snow in winter BEST TIME TO VISIT: Spring summer or fall |
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| Queen’s Bush was rapidly being settled
when Lebanon came into being in the 1850s. By 1857, the town could claim
two hotels, a pair of general stores, a shoe store, and a gristmill. It
also had several blacksmith shops, a chopping mill, a Methodist church and
a school. The original school was lost in 1902 when it was demolished by
a tornado. A new school was built and lasted until 1961 when amalgamation
closed it. As time passed, businesses closed one by one. In 1952 the last
general store burned down erasing any reason for Lebanon to exist as a business
community. The one time school has been converted to a home. |
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