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      Known as Jones's Creek, Cobourg Brook and then Factory Creek this stream has been used since the first settlers to provide water power for saw mills, grist mills, breweries, distilleries and other industries. The original Factory Creek valley extended from Elgin Street to the lake between Ontario and Burnham Streets. …

      George Boswell was Senior Judge from 1853-1882 and was part of the prominent Boswell family of Cobourg. Later it became Miss Adam's Ladies' Academy. In 1883 when Rev. Father Murray built a second separate school on University Ave., four Sisters of St. Joseph came to Cobourg to open this school. …

      Erected in 1832 as a store, the building has since housed the Willis shoe store, Routh's restaurant, the Hydro office and Fisher's Dairy Bar. In 1908 the west half of the building was the Bijou Dream Theatre.

      Shortly after this picture was taken the Pringle residence, now part of Hatfield Hall, was erected on the site.

      Near McGill and King, this building was used as a hosptial when a detachment of British regulars were in town during the Fenian scare. It was built in 1866.

      The Gas Works was Cobourg's oldest public utility, this building being constructed in 1855. Then, till the 1890s the lighting of the town streets was all gas. Even as electric slowly came into existence, many street lights continued till just before World War 1. Some of the homes still used …

      This fine brick residence was built this in 1851 by R. D. Chatterton, who came to Cobourg about 1830, and was the first editor of the Cobourg Star, which began publishing in 1831. Its proportions, massing, and detail give it a decidedly English flavor.

      Rev. John Beatty arrived in 1833 and helped organize and found Victoria College. He became the College's first Steward and Domestic Governor.

      This old building was once the Cobourg - Peterborough Railroad station.

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      Known as Jones's Creek, Cobourg Brook and then Factory Creek this stream has been used since the first settlers to provide water power for saw mills, grist mills, breweries, distilleries and other industries. The original Factory Creek valley extended from Elgin Street to the lake between Ontario and Burnham Streets. …

      Norman George Ham bought what was once the largest grist mill in the area, Hamilton Mills, located south of King on Tremaine St. in 1824. He incorporated the mill with his own which was on King St. In the 1830s George Ham built this large brick residence west of his …

      The lakeshore in front of the old Tracy estate is highly historic. In 1860, when the Prince of Wales visited Cobourg, he stayed a few hours at the residence, then owned by the Hon. Sidney Smith. In the background is a site long popular for Sunday School picnics and as …

      Till the 1950s one could still identify the Duck Harbour ballast line over which gravel was hauled for the re-ballasting of the Grand Trunk Railway in 1887.

      In 1815, Loyalist John Kelly Spencer purchased 160 acres in what is now the centre of Cobourg from the son of Eluid Nickerson, Cobourg's first settler. He subdivided it and in 1827 built the Poplars on the northeast portion of his property. Spencer Street was named after Sheriff Spencer of …

      The Distillery was located in East Cobourg, towards the Kingston Crossing.

      This house was originally built in 1824 by George S. Boulton whose family was well known for being members of the Family Compact. It was later occupied by William Rosmound, who owned Cobourg Woollen Mills. In 1900 it was bought by Henry Fitzhugh, eldest son of General C. Fitzhugh and …

      Later on this became the home of A. M. Peterson.

      Although an earlier school was recorded on Con. A, Lot 11, this brick school was built in 1874 on a grant of land that was received by C.R.Mallory. Although Merwin Greer opened in 1956, its attendance swelled with th children of pipeline workers and this old school reopened. It was …