CITY OF HAMILTON DIREOTORY, - Toronto Public Library

COUNTY OF WENTWORTH. 367
Western Railway, ] 2 miles from Hamilton and 14 miles from Guelph.
It was first settled by Patrick Freel. Joseph Smith and Samuel Sutton.
The village was laid out by Patrick Freel in 1853. The first postmaster
was James F. Douglas. Jas. Hurst is the present cfficial. The village
contains two stores, one saw mill and flouring mill with four run of
stone. There is a good private school with an average attendance of
thirty.five pupils, and is kept open the whole year. The Carmel Methodist
Church is nearly a mile south of the village. It was erected in
1862, of frame, and will accommodate two hundred persons. There are
two hotels, the Half-way House and the Freelton House. Mails daily.
Population about 100.
Addison, Mrs. Ellen, prop. Freel- Freel, Patrick, propr. Half-Way
ton House. Honse.
Allen, Michael, boot and shoemaker Galloway, James, miller.
Atkinson, E. L:, M.D. HIRST, JAS., P.M.
Brady, James, carpenter. HIRST, JAMES & EDWARD,
Brady, John, carpenter. general merchants.
Campbell, Thomas, carpenter. Hood, James, teamster.
Carter, S. A., M.D. Kirk, John, miller.
Chambers, Eno, carpenter. Morrissy, Richard, laborer.
Curry, George, blacksmith. Morrissy, Thomas, laborer.
Davidson, Peter, carpenter and Noble, Robert, miller.
builder. Patiabaker, L., saw mill proprietor.
Douglas, Richard, laborer. Rowley, Jas., general merchant.
Ferguson, James, carpenter. Smith, James, drover.
Ferguson, James, carpenter. Teef, Chaa., engineer.
FREEL, PATK., gen. merchant.
GtANFORD (Village Mount Hope).
A post village in the township of Glandford, seven miles from Hamilton
on the Hamilton and Caledonia Plank and Gravel .Road. It was
first settled in 1816 by Bela Hibbard. The post office was established
in 1848, David Choate being the first postmaster. The present official
is John Atkinson. In the village there are two stores, a good school,
with an average attendance of sixty pupils, and two churches, viz:
Chur.ch of England, erected in 1854, of brick, and capable of seating
two hundred and fifty persons-Rev. Mr. -Bull, incumbent; and the
Wealeyan Methodist Church, built in 1814, of frame, which will accommodate
four hundred persons; Rev. Mr. Piersan, minister. The Sons
of Temperance have a division and a good hall of their own. Loyal
Orange Lodge No. 19 meets the second Tuesday in each month. Mails
daily. Population about 150.
Alone, Daniel, farmer. . I ARMSTRONG, WM., blacksmith.
ARMSTRONG, GEORGE, black- A'fKINSON, J., postmaster and
smith. grocer.'