MELANCTHON
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| NAME: MELANCTHON COUNTY: ONTARIO ROADS: 2WD GRID: CLIMATE: Snow in winter BEST TIME TO VISIT: Spring summer or fall |
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| Once a bustling village along the Sydenham Road
that led pioneer settlers to their distant farm lots in the Queen’s
Bush, a string of small hotels serving traveler’s basic needs was
Melancthon. In 1890, the town experienced its heyday of the era with several
stores, hotels, a Methodist church, a school, a town hall, a railway station,
a sawmill, and a grain elevator. Following the close of World War I, the
town began to fade and the general store is Melancthon’s only remaining
business. Even the gravestones in the cemetery have been uprooted and bunched
together as a memorial to a once energetic community. |
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