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Geographic
Location and Hamlets
Explanation of North-South Division of
Township
Additional Section
of Township
Maps of the Area
McGill
University, County Atlas Map
Geographic
Location and Hamlets
Concession #1 land area fronts on the Bay of Quinte
and is served by Highway #33. Conway District being the area to the west,
Sandhurst in the centre and Elm Beach to the east. The Town Site of
Fredericksburgh was laid-out by the early surveyors in the Sandhurst District
but was never developed. In 1963 a sub-division called Sandhurst Shores next to
the original town site was established.
Concession #2 has country road #8 as their highway.
Parma is the most westerly district and Sillsville the centre. Sillsville's
northern border is Hay Bay.
The Western section of Concession #3 and the area
along the Hay Bay South Shore Road is known as Hayburn.
Hawley (sometimes referred to as Hamburg-Hawley)
makes up a large area of Concession #2 & #3 in the north-east portion of
South Fredericksburgh and is also served by County Road #8.
Please refer to the maps on
this site for further information.
Explanation
of North-South Division of Township
The Township of Fredericksburgh was named after
Prince Augustus Frederick, Duke of Sussex, the ninth child of King George III.
Fredericksburgh, like the other communities west of Kingston, Ontario was
settled by the United Empire Loyalists in 1784.
When Municipal Governments were formed, many
townships had no halls or places of their own in which to hold council or
public meetings and taverns were used for this purpose. Meetings alternated
between the North and South part of Fredericksburgh Township.
In the northern part of the township meetings were
held at the Lucas Tavern, known as the Dew Drop Inn north of Big Creek Bridge
on Country Road #8. In the southern part of the Township, meetings were held at
Charters' Tavern in the community of Sillsville. Both buildings still stand as
residential homes.
Most people in the southern part of the Township
traveled east to Bath for their supplies whereas those living north of Big
Creek shopped in Napanee. As a result there was no great urgency by either the
south or the north to properly maintain a connecting road. This condition
remained until the time of the county road system.
There was an on-going dispute as to where to hold
council meetings and the tension increased when a site for a permanent township
building was discussed. Thus it seemed reasonable at the time to solve the
problem by separating into a North and South Township. This occurred in 1857.
The districts of South Fredericksburgh were for the
most part, named after the local hamlet or school district. In the early days
most of the districts had their own stores and some had blacksmith shops and
cheese factories.
Additional
Section of Township
Fredericksburgh, originally
known as the Third Township of Cataraquie was settled in 1784 by discharged
veterans led by Major James Rogers. The boundaries were surveyed by November
1783 but the lot lines were not run until the following year.
In order that all the
veterans from The Rogers Corps. were accommodated in a single township, land
was taken from Adolphustown and added to Fredericksburgh. Fredericksburgh
township road No. 1 was the dividing line. This road extends from Conway at the
south and bordering the Bay of Quinte, northward to Hayburn on Hay Bay.
The numbering of the
original Fredericksburgh lots started at Township Road No. 1 and continued
eastward for 26 lots. The numbering of the Township of Adolphustown lots also
started at Township Road No. 1 and extended westward for 33 lots. When land was
taken from Adolphustown and lot numbering remained, but lots 1 to 12 were
assigned to Fredericksburgh. This portion of the former Adolphustown Township
was later called 'Fredericksburgh Additional'.
To allow as many settlers as
possible access to waterfronts the lots were narrow but deep and were divided
by concessions with Concession No. 1 fronting on the Bay of Quinte and
Concessions No. 2 and 3 to the north.
Maps of
The Area
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North Fredericksburgh |
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South Fredericksburgh |
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