King City Trail Under Development 6 r Schomberg e Station v 40 i R d 35 n 39 a ll 36 34 o CN Railway H Jane St Schomberg grew around the land and 5 activities of the Brown brothers, Pennsylvania King City land grants date back to 1797. Quakers, who arrived in the 1830’s. Before Highway 27 The original hamlet of Springhill, named for long there was a mill, a bank, general stores, 2 19 its many springs, benefited from the coming a tannery, a blacksmith shop, a wagon shop, 10th Concession Featured Heritage Site of the railway and a station in 1853. This two shoe shops serving the 1850 population 5 See reverse for photo and description stimulated its growth into a thriving village of 100. The community was first named of 120. Named King in the late 1880’s by Bathurst St Brownsville but the coming of the post office King Township 18 1 Museum J.W. Crossley, the local Reeve, the village Native peoples, French explorers, Designated Heritage Site in 1862 saw the name change to Schomberg 33 boasted many fine residences, hotels, in honour of the Duke of Schomberg. Prosperity 1 2 3 4 See reverse for photo and description 5 inns and stores, a number of which survive Quakers, United Empire Loyalists, British continued with the 1902 arrival of the Aurora to this day. Lining and surrounding the & Schomberg Railway terminus. First held in King Rd Lloydtown-Aurora Rd 1 4 3 crossroads of Keele Street and King Road Closed in 1917, soldiers, Rebels, Dutch farmers. 1852, the annual agricultural fair takes place 19th Sdrd 32 Lloydtown-Aurora Rd Public Library 1 (once the 4th Concession and the 14th site of the last annually at the end of May. r active toll gate in 38 e Sideroad) these sites still serve residents Lloydtown today doesn’t give the impression v 2 and visitors alike, much as they have York County Vanished Village 17 i of its important role in Canada’s early history. 10th R for over 150 years. Several buildings Toll Road Passing through, or putting down stakes, Jesse Lloyd, a Pennsylvania Quaker, and his r tell their story through their proudly e b they all left their mark on King Township. Saw or Grist Mill 14 year old wife Phoebe Crossley, settled the displayed heritage plaques. area and started the first grist mill in 1826. m Growth quickly followed and within several u H Cemetery (active) years the area included two churches, two t cooperages, three hotels, three blacksmith s Get up close to where they lived and died, shops, a tannery, several stores and more. a Pioneer Cemetery 15th Sideroad E Graham Sideroad laughed and cried, learned and prayed, Joining William Lyon Mackenzie, Jesse Lloyd 15th Sideroad Dufferin St Ansnorveldt, 1 Episcopal Old Methodist, c1848 organised and led others in the failed 1837 30 Keele St Dutch for “Ann Snor’s Upper Canada Rebellion in nearby York Field” was named for worked and played. 2 Secessionist Presbyterian, c1854 Yonge St (Toronto). The Lloyd family cemetery and a the wife of John Snor, 3 St. Andrew’s Presbyterian, c1834 statue dedicated to the rebels stand as a the local Netherlands reminder of its past. Immigrant Foundation c1851 4 King Christian Church, Highway 27 representative. 5 Proctor Family Cemetery, c1862 ANSNORVELDT 2 6 St. Andrew’s Presbyterian, c1834 Once 7 Wesleyan Old Methodist, c1852 thought of as nothing more than a swamp of 8 Secessionist Presbyterian, c1858 er 15 8th Concession v 25 snakes and muskrats the i 9 Primitive Methodist, c1856 Holland Marsh, named for Major R rg 10 St. Paul’s Presbyterian, c1851 J.S. Holland, was first drained in e 1927 and its 2,830 hectares is b Bathurst St m 11 Wesleyan Old Methodist, c1849 31 now considered some of o 11 26 h Highway 27 the best farmland in c Morning 12 Chamberlain Burying Ground, c1847 King Rd S Ontario. Sideroad Please respect the privacy and rights of those whose property & buildings are highlighted 13 St. Andrew’s Presbyterian, c1883 32 14 on this heritage map and photo gallery. Do not trespass on private property. Thank you. 14 First King Baptist, c1839 Nobleton is named for Joseph Noble, the The Toronto Carrying Place, also known as 15 Primitive Methodist, c1868 first tavern keeper and an early settler at the Humber Portage, was used by natives, the crossroads of the 9th Concession and explorers and traders, including Étienne Brûlé PRODUCED BY 16 Old Presbyterian, c1866 the 14th Sideroad. First settled in 1812 and Sieur de La Salle. For hundreds of years Dufferin St The Township of King Heritage Committee & The King Heritage Map Partnership its strategic location between King City and it was the route between Lake Ontario and Miller Sideroad 17 Wesleyan Methodist, c1834 Green Ln West Bolton and Kleinburg and Schomberg saw it the Holland River flowing into Lake Simcoe. King Township Archives King Township Museum quickly grow. Soon it included general stores, In September 1793 John Graves Simcoe, the King Township Chamber of Commerce Lloydtown Rebellion Association first lieutenant-governor of Upper Canada, 19th Century Church taverns and hotels, a post office, two King Township Historical Society Nobleton Schomberg District Chamber of Commerce churches, a Masonic Lodge, Orange Hall followed the trail up the Humber River to its 1 Episcopal Old Methodist, c1849 and all the amenities a booming community Holland Marsh northern terminus on his way The Oak Ridges Moraine to Georgian Bay. Using an alternative native F U N D E D B Y 2 Anglican, c1857 would be proud of. Noble’s grandson, William Maxwell, became Lord Beaverbrook, a British covers over 70% of King. This irregular trail further to the east on his return led The Corporation of the Township of King 3 Baptist, c1889 statesman of renown. Strolling along King glacial ridge of sandy hills, basins and kettle to its selection as a major military land lakes acts as a recharge for groundwater, and route, the future Yonge Street. 14 2075 King Road, King City, ON L7B 1A1 tel 905-833-5321 www.king.ca Methodist Episcopal, c1871 Road and Highway 27 one can discover some 4 of the names, occupations and enterprises is the headwaters of streams flowing both north and south. It had the single 5 Disciple, c1851 of the buildings’ original owners. PHOTOGRAPHY, TEXT & LAYOUT: Bertrand Duclos, for The Township of King Heritage Committee, May 2006 greatest environmental influence 12 13 DESIGN: Louis Fishauf, www.fishaufdesign.vze.com Seccessionist Presbyterian, c1858 on the settlement of King. 6 Jane St nv R Highway 9 Highway 9 Gle ille d Methodist, c1897 3 7 Highway 9 Highway 9 6 Schomberg 8 Presbyterian, c1848 Station 9 First Methodist, c1856 Township Firsts 10 Methodist, c1891 37 Post Office 1831 20 15 Telegraph 1872 11 King Mission Sabbath, c1876 4 Telephone 1889 12 Methodist, c1859 18 10th Concession Highway 400 c1891 13 Anglican, SCHOMBERG 17 14 Wesleyan Methodist, c1873 Keele St Thornton Bales see detail map Lloydt Conservation Area 19th Sideroad own 19th 19th Sideroad 19th Sideroad Mulock Dr 15 King Christian, c1851 - A 36 17 ur Sideroad t Oak Ridges Trail o 8 S 16 Presbyterian, c1881 r t a t R S d s r t Baptist, c1848 Caledon King Townline North 17 21 s LLOYDTOWN u r h 14 13 t u 18 Presbyterian, c1837 22 1 a h 16 at B 19 Wesleyan Methodist, c1852 Kettleby Rd B 16 Dufferin St d Kettleby Station l 20 Secessionist Presbyterian, c1858 O 23 19 KETTLEBY 21 Primitive Methodist, c1856 31 8th Concession POTTAGEVILLE 7 c1865 Kennific 22 Methodist, Lake 18th Sideroad 23 Methodist, c1862 Some 84 of 16 17 10 18th Sideroad Lloydtown-Aurora Rd 18th Sideroad St John’s Sideroad the original 420 lots, 24 Presbyterian, c1851 16,000 acres, were Oak Ridges Trail 18th Sideroad 9 11 25 Anglican, c1889 set aside as Clergy and Crown Reserves, Weston Rd 26 Methodist, c1896 a factor in the 1837 Snowball 27 Roman Catholic, c1855 Rebellion. 23 Jane St takes it name from 28 Presbyterian, c1883 a Vaughan church 7th Concession moved here in 1891 29 Baptist, c1870 5 whose joints were 11th Concession 12th Concession once pegged 30 Primitive Methodist, c1846 30 with snow. 16 34 5 12 31 Presbyterian, c1870 15 Thomson 17th Sideroad 17th Sideroad 10 Lake 17th Sideroad 32 Wesleyan Methodist, c1844 35 17th Sideroad Kettleby was once one of the busiest 29 SNOWBALL locations in the township. In 1842 33 Anglican, c1842 13 Sc when Captain Septimus Tyrwhitt hom 34 Quaker, c1839 14 b bought 46 acres the area’s growth erg & really started. Tyrwhitt built a huge 35 Methodist, c1881 29 9 flour mill, a woollen mill, an oatmeal 24 Au 36 Baptist, c1870 ro mill, a cooperage and a distillery. r a An officer in the British Militia Garrison Highway 400 R in York during the 1837 Rebellion, a Tyrwhitt named the community after One Room Schoolhouse 10th Concession i l Dufferin St w his aristocratic family’s ancestral home 1 S.S. 23, Kinghorn, c1861 12 a of Kettleby in Lincolnshire, England. 16th Sideroad Oak Ridges Trail 25 y Oak Ridges Trail 2 S.S. 2, Springhill, c1873 16th Sideroad 16th Sideroad Kettleby proudly boasted several hotels, 24 shoemakers, blacksmiths, a dressmaker, 3 S.S. 21, Temperanceville, 16th Sdrd a milliner, a weaver and a tailor. There was c1857 10 also a general store, wagon maker, farm Gregloch implement factory and a Temperance Hall 4 S.S. 22, Eversley, c1883 Lake 9 with the largest membership in Ontario.