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The Palmerston Railway Heritage Museum is the only original station left in Wellington County, Ontario and one of the few designated as a railway museum in its part of the province. The Palmerston Station is located at 166 William Street, Palmerston, Ontario .
Palmerston (local historical pronunciation: IPA [ˈpʰæ̃.mɝ.s͡tən]) is an unincorporated community with a population of 2,599 [1] on the southern edge of Minto in the northwestern part of Wellington County, Ontario.
Site Date(s) Designated Location Description Image Adelaide Hunter Hoodless Homestead [5] [6]: 1839 (completed) 1995 Brant County: The childhood home of activist and organizer Adelaide Hunter Hoodless, educational reformer and co-founder of the Women's Institute, the National Council of Women of Canada and the Victorian Order of Nurses
In 1947 the House was converted into the Wellington County Home for the Aged and in 1975 the building reopened as the Wellington County Museum and Archives. [ 21 ] [ 22 ] [ 23 ] A historic plaque was erected at the museum, indicating that the "government-supported poorhouse" was "the shelter of last resort for the homeless and destitute, who ...
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The museum resides on the Dawn settlement, a community formed by Josiah Henson, a Methodist preacher and runaway slave who escaped to Canada 28 October 1830. [2] Henson arrived in Canada in 1830, although he returned to the United States on a number of occasions, to encourage and facilitate the escape of other slaves to Canada as a conductor for the Underground Railroad. [2]
The Best Gift: a Record of the Carnegie Libraries in Ontario. Toronto: Dundurn Press Ltd. ISBN 0-919670-82-2. Yvan Lamonde; Patricia Lockhart Fleming; Fiona A. Black, eds. (2005). "The Evolution of Public Libraries". History of the Book in Canada: 1840-1918. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. pp. 254– 260. ISBN 0-8020-8012-X
The John Freeman Walls Historic Site and Underground Railroad Museum is a 20-acre (81,000 m 2) historical site located in Puce, now Lakeshore, Ontario, about 40 km east of Windsor. Today, many of the original buildings remain, and in 1985, the site was opened as an Underground Railroad museum.