SILVERBROOK

NAME: SILVERBROOK COUNTY: ONTARIO ROADS: 2WD GRID: CLIMATE: Snow in winter BEST TIME TO VISIT: Spring summer or fall

COMMENTS: REMAINS: However, the school still stands, the only reminder of a long-vanished mill town.

There was only one reason for the existence of Silverbrook—to cut logs. It was a sawmill town. Once the timber supply was depleted, the lumber companies moved on, removing mills and houses alike. Silverbrook was no exception. By 1847, the mill was one of the largest of the mill towns. It contained a store, a blacksmith, a boarding house, a school, and homes for the workers. The town lacked a church so services were held in the school. At the time, population was about three hundred. After only a few years, the pine forests were gone and so was the town.

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