King City Trail Under Development 6 r Schomberg e Station v 40 i R d 3636 n 39 a ll 3737 3535 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 1830s. Before Highway 27 The original hamlet of Springhill, named for long there was a mill, a bank, general stores, 2 Featured Heritage Site 19 its many springs, benefited from the coming a tannery, a blacksmith shop, a wagon shop, 10th Concession of the railway and a station in 1853. This See reverse for photo and description two shoe shops serving the 1850 population 55 stimulated its growth into a thriving village of 100. The community was first named of 120. Named King in the late 1880s by Bathurst St Brownsville but the coming of the post office King Township Designated Heritage Site 18 1 Museum J.W. Crossley, the local Reeve, the village Native peoples, French explorers, in 1862 saw the name change to Schomberg 33433343 boasted many fine residences, hotels, See reverse for photo and description in honour of the Duke of Schomberg. Prosperity 1 2 3 44 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 11 4 33 crossroads of Keele Street and King Road Closed in 1917, soldiers, Rebels, Dutch farmers. Public Library 1852, the annual agricultural fair takes place 19th Sdrd 3333 Lloydtown-Aurora Rd 1 (once the 4th Concession and the 14th site of the last at the end of May. 38 r Sideroad) these sites still serve residents active toll gate in Vanished Village e 22 York County Lloydtown today doesn’t give the impression 17 v and visitors alike, much as they have i 10th Toll Road Passing through, or putting down stakes, of its important role in Canada’s early history. R for over 150 years. Several buildings Jesse Lloyd, a Pennsylvania Quaker, and his r tell their story through their proudly Saw or Grist Mill e 14 year old wife Phoebe Crossley, settled the displayed heritage plaques. they all left their mark on King Township. b area and started the first grist mill in 1826. m Cemetery (active) Growth quickly followed and within several u H years the area included two churches, two t Get up close to where they lived and died, cooperages, three hotels, three blacksmith s Pioneer Cemetery shops, a tannery, several stores and more. a 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 30 Keele St organised and led others in the failed 1837 Dutch for “Ann Snor’s worked and played. 2 Secessionist Presbyterian, c1854 Upper Canada Rebellion in nearby York Field” was named for the wife of John Snor, Yonge St 3 St. Andrew’s Presbyterian, c1834 (Toronto). The Lloyd family cemetery and a statue dedicated to the rebels stand as a the local Netherlands 4 King Christian Church, c1851 reminder of its past. Immigrant Foundation Highway 27 representative. 5 Proctor Family Cemetery, c1862 ANSNORVELDT 6 St. Andrew’s Presbyterian, c1834 2 7 Wesleyan Old Methodist, c1852 Once 8 Secessionist Presbyterian, c1858 thought of as nothing more than a swamp of er 15 8th Concession v 9 Primitive Methodist, c1856 2626 snakes and muskrats the i Holland Marsh, named for Major R c1851 g 10 St. Paul’s Presbyterian, J.S. Holland, was first drained in er b Bathurst St 11 Wesleyan Old Methodist, c1849 1927 and its 2,830 hectares is m 31 now considered some of o 11 2727 h Chamberlain Burying Ground, c1847 Highway 27 12 King Rd the best farmland in Sc Morning 13 St. Andrew’s Presbyterian, c1883 Ontario. Sideroad Please respect the privacy and rights of those whose property & buildings are highlighted 32 14 14 First King Baptist, c1839 on this heritage map and photo gallery. Do not trespass on private property. Thank you. The Toronto Carrying Place, also known as Primitive Methodist, c1868 Nobleton is named for Joseph Noble, the 15 first tavern keeper and an early settler at the Humber Portage, was used by natives, PRODUCED BY 16 Old Presbyterian, c1866 the crossroads of the 9th Concession and explorers and traders, including Étienne Brûlé the 14th Sideroad. First settled in 1812 and Sieur de La Salle. For hundreds of years The Township of King Heritage Committee & The King Heritage Map Partnership 17 Wesleyan Methodist, c1834 it was the route between Lake Ontario and Dufferin St its strategic location between King City and Miller Sideroad Green Ln West King Township Archives King Township Museum Bolton and Kleinburg and Schomberg saw the Holland River flowing into Lake Simcoe. King Township Chamber of Commerce Lloydtown Rebellion Association it quickly grow. Soon it included general In September 1793 John Graves Simcoe, the 19th Century Church stores, taverns and hotels, a post office, first lieutenant-governor of Upper Canada, King Township Historical Society Nobleton Schomberg District Chamber of Commerce 1 Episcopal Old Methodist, c1849 two churches, a Masonic Lodge, Orange Hall, followed the trail up the Humber River to its Holland Marsh northern terminus on his way Anglican, c1857 and all the amenities a booming community FUNDED BY 2 would be proud of. Noble’s grandson, William The Oak Ridges Moraine to Georgian Bay. Using an alternative native 3 Baptist, c1889 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 statesman of renown. Strolling along King glacial ridge of sandy hills, basins and kettle to its selection as a major military land 2075 King Road, King City, ON L7B 1A1 tel 905-833-5321 www.king.ca 14 4 Methodist Episcopal, c1871 Road and Highway 27 one can discover some lakes acts as a recharge for groundwater, and route, the future Yonge Street. of the names, occupations and enterprises is the headwaters of streams flowing both 5 Disciple, c1851 PHOTOGRAPHY, TEXT & LAYOUT: Bertrand Duclos, for The Township of King Heritage Committee, May 2006 of the buildings’ original owners. north and south. It had the single 6 Seccessionist Presbyterian, c1858 greatest environmental influence 1313 13 DESIGN: Louis Fishauf, www.fishaufdesign.vze.com on the settlement of King. Jane St R REVISED: February 2008 Methodist, c1897 Highway 9 lenville d Highway 9 7 3 G 8 Presbyterian, c1848 Highway 9 Highway 9 6 Schomberg 9 Baptist, c1873 Station 10 First Methodist, c1856 Township Firsts Post Office 1831 11 Methodist, c1891 37 20 1616 Telegraph 1872 12 King Mission Sabbath, c1876 4 Telephone 1889 18 13 Methodist, c1859 10th Concession Highway 400 14 Anglican, c1891 SCHOMBERG 17 Keele St Thornton Bales 15 Wesleyan Methodist, c1873 see detail map Lloydt Conservation Area 19th Sideroad own 19th 19th Sideroad 19th Sideroad Mulock Dr - A 16 King Christian, c1851 36 17 ur Sideroad t Oak Ridges Trail o 8 S r t a t 17 Presbyterian, c1881 R S d s r t Caledon King Townline North 21 s LLOYDTOWN u 18 Baptist, c1848 r h 1515 1414 t u 22 1 19 Presbyterian, c1837 1717 a h at B Kettleby Rd B 16 Dufferin St 20 Wesleyan Methodist, c1852 d Kettleby Station l O 21 Secessionist Presbyterian, c1858 23 19 KETTLEBY 22 Primitive Methodist, c1856 3232 8th Concession 7 Kennific POTTAGEVILLE 23 Methodist, c1865 Lake 18th Sideroad Some 84 of 16 1818 10 18th Sideroad Lloydtown-Aurora Rd 18th Sideroad St John’s Sideroad 24 Methodist, c1862 the original 420 lots, 25 Presbyterian, c1851 16,000 acres, were Oak Ridges Trail 18th Sideroad 9 1212 set aside as Clergy 26 Anglican, c1889 and Crown Reserves, Weston Rd 27 Methodist, c1896 a factor in the 1837 Rebellion. Snowball 28 Roman Catholic, c1855 2424 Jane St takes its name from a Vaughan church 29 Presbyterian, c1883 7th Concession moved here in 1891 5 30 Baptist, c1870 whose joints were 11th Concession 12th Concession once pegged 31 Primitive Methodist, c1846 3131 with snow. 16 5 12 32 Presbyterian, c1870 15 34 Thomson 17th Sideroad 17th Sideroad 17th Sideroad 1111 17th Sideroad Lake 33 Wesleyan Methodist, c1844 35 Kettleby was once one of the busiest 3030 SNOWBALL locations in the township. In 1842 34 Anglican, c1842 13 Sc when Captain Septimus Tyrwhitt hom 14 b bought 46 acres the area’s growth 35 Quaker, c1839 erg & really started. Tyrwhitt built a huge 36 Methodist, c1881 29 1010 flour mill, a woollen mill, an oatmeal 24 Au ro mill, a cooperage and a distillery. 37 Baptist, c1870 r a An officer in the British Militia Garrison Highway 400 R in York during the 1837 Rebellion, a Tyrwhitt named the community after 10th Concession i One Room Schoolhouse 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 16th Sideroad Oak Ridges Trail 25 16th Sideroad y Oak Ridges Trail 2 S.S. 2, Springhill, c1873 Kettleby proudly boasted several hotels, 2525 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 Lake 4 S.S. 22, Eversley, c1883 9 with the largest membership in Ontario.