TRAVERSTON

NAME: Traverston 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.

When the area known as “Queen’s Bush” was opened to settlement about 1850, Traverston was one of a number of settlements that had their beginning along the swift waters of the Rocky Saugeen River. The town was originally named Waverly and had its start in 1856 with a saw and gristmill. In 1865, the then owners of the mills sold their interest to a John Travers who renamed the town to bear his own name which it does to this day. Eventually the railroads came to the area but bypassed the town. As happened so often in the past, new towns were established at the railside which usually meant the death knell for towns like Traverston. But the town still lives, a combination of the old and the new in the form of country homes. Submitted by: Henry Chenoweth

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