Welcome to Newcastle In 1834, the village was known as Crandell’s Corners and shortly after the area fronting onto Lake was called Bond Head. In 1851, these two communities became one, named Newcastle. In 1856, it was officially incorporated as a Village. In 1974, the Village

became part of the Town of Newcastle (later called the Municipality of Clarington). NORTH

Newcastle has always been very proud of its history. Since 1963, there have been five STREET NORTH MILL STREET NORTH Provincial Heritage Plaques erected in the villlage and immediate area. These honour STREET BEAVER 17 Robert Baldwin Sr. (who first arrived in Newcastle in 1798 and whose son became the 1 2 3 4 KING AVENUE EAST Premier of ); Joseph E. Atkinson (one of Canada’s leading publishers and founder KING AVENUE 16 9 8 7 6 5 of the Star); The Massey Family (who started one of the world’s largest WEST manufacturers of farm machinery); Bishop Charles H. Brent (an outstanding EMILY ST. W. EMILY ST. E. humanitarian and churchman); and the Newcastle Fish Hatchery (honouring Samuel 15 Wilmot who built one the of earliest fish hatcheries in North America). 14

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20 KING AVENUE WEST (Newcastle Community Hall) NEWCASTLE This building was donated by Chester Massey in 1923. There was a lawn bowling area as well as tennis courts on the east side of the building. It is a Community Hall and originally had a large banquet and dance 20 KING AVE. W. 97 KING AVE. E 84 MILL ST. S. hall as well as the public library, post office, Municipal offices and meeting rooms for the Mason’s and 4-10 KING AVE. E. 39 KING AVE. E. 92-118 KING AVE, W. Lion’s. Joseph Atkinson donated a flagpole that was an actual ship’s mast. Newcastle native Wellington Foster presented the clock in the hall tower. Thomas Montague, who also laid the corner stone, donated 28 KING AVE. E. 261 MILL ST. S. 210 KING AVE. W, the concrete memorial tablets inside. The kitchen and bowling alley were added later. 48 KING AVE. E. 285 MILL ST. S. 483 KING AVE. E. 386 MILL ST. S. 4-10 KING AVENUE EAST 187 KING AVE. E. 274 MILL ST. S. (Rosalina’s and Newcastle Family Chiropractor) 153 KING AVE. E. 136 MILL ST. S. This brick two storey building located at the north east corner of King and Mill was built in Information collected from mupliple sourcies including the early 1840s. The west end of this building the Newcastle Village and District Historical Society and Clarington Muesums has always had o ces or businesses on the main oor and residences upstairs. One of the earliest businesses on the west end where Rosalina’s Pizza is now was Dr. Reid’s o ce. Later the west side was the Village Post O ce for a number of years. The building was owned by the Walbridge family for many years and later it was owned by Harry Jose, a local farmer who also was the Newcastle Village Reeve. It was also used as a barber shop, possibly by Mr. Deline before he moved across the road. For many years, Joan Bennett had an antique shop 1-800-563-1195 called “The Crow’s Nest” in the west end. 1-800-563-1195 187 KING AVENUE EAST (Gift of Art) 97 KING AVENUE EAST 261 MILL STREET SOUTH 274 MILL STREET SOUTH 92-118 KING AVENUE WEST This farmhouse was built between 1855 and 1858 (Massey/JASCO Factory) This house was built in 1857 by William and This home was built circa 1856 by Richard Varcoe, (Mac’s Milk) 28 KING AVENUE EAST (The Snug) who operated a licenced tavern here. There is by Charles Stiggants. He was a market gardener In 1848, Daniel Massey purchased a block of land Frances (Massey) Boate. William Boate was the This building was constructed in 1847 and called This was originally Carveth’s Feed Store. In 1954, speculation that it was used briefly as the and lived on this farm with his wife Charlotte on the east side of Beaver Street and erected a Principal of the Newcastle Grammar School and Alexandria Hall. Northrop & Lyman, a patent Charlie and Sug Ying Mah Woo purchased the Anglican Rectory for a short time. Members of the until his death in 1905. That year, Fred Graham three storey brick factory and a foundry on this the Superintendent of Education for Durham medicine company, was established here in 1854. building and it became News Lunch. In 1983, it Varcoe family lived here until 1914 when it was and Lydia Walton purchased the property. At that site called Massey Manufacturing Company. County until his death in 1865 at the age of 35. Two Americans, Henry Northrop and John Lyman, was sold to Betty Dubeau and called Green Leaf. sold to Simon Baskerville for $850. The Blackburn time the farm ran from the CPR line down to The buildings burned down in 1864 and were The Boate’s also had a girls’ school inside the decided to start their own business here making Later it was sold to the Metcalf family and called family lived here for many years and after they where the highway 401 is now. It was a working rebuilt by 1865. There is a Historical Plaque on home. This large home is considered the grandest “pain killers” and hair products as well as other Steamers and more recently owned by John Walsh sold it, the house was converted to apartments. farm, however Fred later ran a coal business and east side of building and one on the north side for house in Newcastle. tonics. They moved to Toronto in 1874 and soon and called The Snug. The present owners did extensive restoration work delivered coal to homes in the area. Later the land more information. became one of the largest patent medicine and brought the home back to its original was subdivided and became housing. This building In 1916, the building was purchased by James manufacturers in Canada. In 1857, the upper part condition as a single family home. was purchased by Syvan Developments and in Anderson Smith and began manufacturing of this building was originally the Village Town Hall 2001 it was renovated and leased to A Gift of Art. ammunition cases for the Canadian military in and also used as an Opera House. Around 1900, WWI. After the war, they produced jewelry and the Farncomb brothers had a drug store on the silverware cases that were sold all over the world. lower level (see mural on the east wall) and a As you walk down King Street, you will The J. Anderson Smith Company (known as dentist, Dr. Harnden was upstairs. During WWI see Memorial Park on the north side JASCO) was in business for over 70 years and several Newcastle boys wearing newly issued of the street. This park has been a remained in operation until the business was uniforms scratched their initials into the bricks municipal property and gathering place since at closed in 1989. In 1999, the Gyaltsan family just to the east of the front door. Apparently, only least 1856. It was named to honour our soldiers purchased the property and constructed a new 285 MILL STREET SOUTH one came home. In 1934 Harvey Bonathan in WWII. There was a drill shed for cadets, a Foodland on the east side of the property. The old Daniel Massey, the founder of Massey purchased the building and moved his hardware baseball diamond, skating rink and was the Massey/JASCO factory was again empty until Manufacturing, and his wife Lucina, had this home store there in 1948. In 1958, it became Goode’s location for the Durham Central Fair that 48 KING AVENUE EAST 2004 when extensive restoration began and built between 1848 and 1850. He purchased a 136 MILL STREET SOUTH Hardware owned by Ray & Mabel Goode. In 1982, This is the house where Joseph Atkinson, lived originally alternated yearly from Newcastle to renovations were carried out and it reopened as small foundry just south of here in Bond Head. The This home was built around 1888 for Dr. Alfred it was sold and divided into several storefronts. with his family beginning in 1866. His mother ran Orono. More recently, the southern part of the shops and apartments. original facing of the house was not the brick you Farncomb. The house exemplified the Italianate a boarding house for men working at the park has been renamed Joseph Atkinson see now but small stones from Lake Ontario. The style and bears a remarkable resemblance to Newcastle Woolen Mill and Massey Foundry. After Parkette. You can learn more by walking to the roof, at the time the house was built, had a glassed Farncomb’s Ebor House on Mill Street South in her death, Joseph took various jobs including at west end of the property and finding the in cupola. In 1856, Daniel Massey died and his son Bond Head. This was one of the first houses in the the post office. His sister Hannah ran the boarding historical plaque. Hart inherited the home. In 1872, sold village to be wired for electricity in the 1890s and house. While at the post office, he saw an ad for a the house to Rev. Canon Henry Brent, from St. to also have a telephone installed. This home was clerk at the Port Hope Times and began his career George’s Anglican church across the street. In restored several years ago to its original state. in the newspaper business. He eventually became 1896, the Anglican Church purchased the home the publisher and owner of the Toronto Star and and used it as their rectory for many years. It is founder of the Atkinson Foundation. He continued now privately owned. to give back to Newcastle through charity and gifts until his death in 1947. There is a historical plaque and parkette named after Atkinson beside 210 KING AVENUE WEST the Clarington Library farther east from here. 39 KING AVENUE EAST The Hollows John J. Uglow’s Tailor Shop was located in this The location of this rambling frame house was one brick two storey building from 1874 until 1923. of the earliest settled areas in Clarke Township. After Mr. Uglow died, the building was home to The lot was part of a Crown grant to Captain John several businesses. His home was the frame house McGill, who sold it in 1801 to Robert Baldwin, one 153 KING AVENUE EAST of the township’s earliest settlers. The oldest part This Regency Cottage was originally the home of on the left of the tailor shop. Mr. Uglow’s daughter, of the structure (now the rear wing of the present Elijah Walbridge, son of Asa Walbridge, one of the Edith Uglow, married Cecil Carveth and they 84 MILL STREET SOUTH house) was originally a small frame dwelling early settlers in Newcastle. Asa sold the lot in eventually moved into the home. 386 MILL STREET SOUTH Newcastle United Church dating from the 1830s. The mid dle section dates 1853 and held a mortgage on it the same year. Mr. Carveth was active in local politics and is (Newcastle Funeral Home) This Wesleyan Methodist church was built in 1867 from the 1850s, and the entire front is a The home stayed in the family for many years. regarded as the village’s first historian. He made In 1906, Thomas Montague built the home. He was to replace a frame church on the corner of Church two-storey Edwardian addition. For many years the Around 1920, Joseph Atkinson, owner and many movies of the village and area and showed one of Newcastle’s most prominent and generous and Emily Streets. The Massey family provided 483 KING AVENUE EAST home was owned by the Bennett family and was Construction of this house began in 1819. It is one publisher of the Toronto Star bought the home for them to school groups. Later the movies were citizens. He was a contractor for the Grand Trunk money to build it, and it was considered a model later used to sell antiques. of the oldest houses in Clarington on its original his niece. In the 1970s the Newcastle Reporter donated by Jack Gordon to the Newcastle Village & Railway. When he died in 1928, he left the home to Methodist Church of its day. The bell tower and foundation. It was built by Asa Walbridge whose was published here for a short time. It later went District Historical Society. Clara Howard. She remained in the home until steeple exemplify the Methodist Church family lived in the house until 1988. In 1824, the back to being a private residence. 1952. The home became the South Haven Rest architecture of mid 19th century Ontario. An first official meeting of a Methodist congregation Home which eventually became bankrupt. The addition was built on the west side in 1877 and took place here. In 2012, a direct descendent of home was empty for a number of years before Carl major renovations were made in 1910. It was then Asa purchased it. It has undergone extensive Goode and Joyce Kufta purchased the home in that the entry portico was built on the east side. In restoration to bring it back to its original state. 1996, restored it and opened the Newcastle 1925, the Methodists joined the Presbyterians to Funeral Home. form Newcastle United Church.