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      "Do you remember when this was taken?" "Cobourg, June 4th" Name and address: Sergt. [W]uger, 189th -----att,Barr[s]f--d...

      Built in 1884 by Agnes Heath of Toronto when her daughter Emily married D'Arcy Boulton who owned The Lawn. Heathcote and The Lawn shared a common boundary and both were built to be lived in year round rather than just as a summer home.It was bought by W.F.Ladd a wealthy …

      This room is modeled on that of the Old Bailey in London's criminal courts. The first thing you notice is the Royal Coat of Arms as painted by a German artist named Moser, which seems almost three-dimensional. In front of this is the dais for the Judge; below is the …

      Colonel William Chambliss, son-in-law of George Shoenberger, one of the wealthiest families in Pennsylvania, had moved to Cobourg in 1867 and saw the advantage of having a first class hotel for the American upper class to use as a summer retreat offering the luxuries they were used to. Along with …

      Cobourg had developed a ‘House of Refuge’ near the corner of James and George streets in the early 1890s. The home took in the elderly, indigent and destitute of the community. Soon there was a need for a hospital and a portion of the home was turned over to that …

      In 1920, as a result of a leadership disagreement in the Cobourg Citizens Band, an offshoot band was formed, The Cobourg Concert Band. A year later the disagreement was resolved and the two bands reunited under the name The Concert Band of Cobourg (Kilties), adopting the highland dress for its …

      This farmhouse on the east end of King Street was locally known as the 'Checkerboard House' and was built in 1878 by Leopold Kobald. Leopold was a butcher who came first to Montreal in 1844 and then to Cobourg in 1847. His first home was built on Cottesmore Avenue but …

      Cottesmore Hall was the largest summer home in Cobourg and was built in 1910. It was built and owned by Wallace H. Rowe, president of the Pittsburgh Steel Company. Construction On Cottesmore Hall began in May 1906 and was completed in March 1907. The Hall's Colonial revival design was produced …

      Postmark 1913(?)

      Caleb Southon and his son, Charles were owners of this general store.

      Postmarked from St. Jean, Quebec, 1913. This toll gate was located on the north side of Highway 2., west of Grafton. concession 1, Lot 25 or 26

      Postmarked Cobourg, 11 Sep 1913

      An earlier church pre-dated this structure which was built in 1896. Earliest mention of the church is 1877.

      55 King St. East, west corner of Victoria Park. As with the Lakeview House property, due to a group of citizens raising a significant portion of the funds to buy this property, the town was forced to acquire the land and make it public. The Chateau was demolished in 1994.It …

      In the 1940s the Ontario Training school housed girls who had encounters with the law. In 1951 the girls were moved to Galt and the house held boys from the Galt Training School. The original school was spread over four large home previouly owned by Americans, but as the decades …

      During World War I, when Victoria College was no longer a school, it became a convalescent hospital for soldiers returning from the trenches of World War I. Almost all the patients were victims of shell-shock. It closed as a military hospital in 1920.