Acton Corners
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| Location in Ontario | |||
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| Province : | Ontario | ||
| Coordinates : | 44 ° 59 ′ N , 75 ° 43 ′ W | ||
| Time zone : | Eastern Time ( UTC − 5 ) | ||
Acton Corners is a small rural town in eastern Ontario , part of the North Grenville parish in Counties Leeds and Grenville .
It is located on the west-east running County Road 43 (formerly also Provincial Highway 43) between Kemptville and Merrickville at the junction of the Actons Corners Road leading north to the Rideau River and County Road 25 coming from the south of Oxford Mills.
Aside from a secularized church, the North Grenville Archives, and a brickyard, Acton Corners has mostly farms and houses in a landscape of farmland and cedar forests.
As is customary in rural Canada, the postal addresses of this town are assigned to the Rural Routes, either at Oxford Mills (RR # 1) or Kemptville (RR # 5).
history
Acton Corners used to be Bobtown, where there was only one farrier. At the beginning of the nineteenth century, with the permission of Oxford County, the connecting road that ran between lots 15 and 16 was built here. In the late 1820s, Robert Acton immigrated with his family from West Connaught, Ireland, and settled in Bobtown. Robert's son, John Acton, was a skilled shoemaker but worked as a stonecutter on the Rideau Canal and later built several buildings in the county, including a flour mill at Oxford Mills and a stone house in Acton Corners on the site of an old log cabin. Acton Corners was named after John Acton.
In its prime, Acton Corners had a post office, school, two churches, a cheese factory, and an Orange Hall, a type of community center.
The post office existed between 1890 and 1912 before it was replaced by the Kemptville Country Post Office. A stone school building was reopened in 1858 to replace the two wooden school buildings in the east and west of the village.
In 1905, the school was demolished and replaced with a new stone building, now known as the North Grenville Archives and used as an archive. The Methodist Church was built in 1875 with a white facade and St. Augustine, the stone church of the Anglicans, was built in 1879. The Methodist Church was sold and demolished in 1963, and the Anglican Church has also stood idle for many years. Scott's cheese factory was built in 1886 and was open until 1948. The Orange Hall was closed until the late 1930s when the building was eventually vacated and sold.
Web links
- Map (PDF; 291 kB)