Lillies Ontario – Heritage Place Museum

October 16 2017

Lillies – News from the Village – 1927

John Hamlets of Elizabethtown Forgotten Hamlets in Elizabethtown, Leeds and Grenville County Ontario, Lillies Ontario, The Athens Reporter 0

The Athens Reporter- excerpts have been taken from this newspaper for the years- 1927. The original newspapers are in the archives of the Heritage House Museum, Athens, Ontario

Lillies, April 16^th, 1927

Albert Gardiner is a patient at the General hospital. All are hoping to see him home soon.

Morton Charlton’s auction sale was well attended on Wednesday last.

The farmers are commencing to work on the land.

Miss Florence Booth had her tonsils removed recently at the General hospital, Brockville. All are pleased to learn that she is convalescing rapidly at her home here.

David Lawson purchased a valuable horse from Charles McNish recently.

Dr. and Mrs. F.M. Judson, Lyn, paid the Vickery family a short visit one day last week.

The Misses Mabel and Lois Marshall are guests of their parents, Mr. and Mrs. J.H. Marshall.

Mr. and Mrs. H. Dunster and family, Lyn, spent a day last week at A.H. Hendry’s.

The Misses Gladys Louise, Florence and Margaret Booth are holidaying at their home here.

Mrs. H. Darling spent a day last week with her daughter, Mrs. Morton Charlston.

April 26 2016

Lillie’s – A One Room School House in Elizabethtown

John One Room School Houses in Elizabethtown Education, Elizabethtown Township Ontario, Leeds and Grenville County Ontario, Lillie's School, Lillies Ontario, One Room School House, Ontario 0

Lillie’s School

(S.S. No. 12 Elizabethtown S.S.No. 9 Front of Yonge)

Lillie’s School was located at Lillie’s about five miles from Lyn on the Graham Lake Road. The original school was built of wood and located on the west corner of Hendry Road a quarter of a mile west of the new school. The wooden structure blew down in a wind storm. It was replaced by one made of brick in 1880. This school was 40 feet long by 30 feet wide and could accommodate 35 students. The new brick school was used up until school consolidation in the 1960’s. The school was closed in June 1963, and was demolished in 1988.(R&T Focus on the District Feb. 1980)

The school also served as a church and services were held there every two weeks on a Monday evening by Methodists Ministers from Lyn. One the first graduates of Lillie’s School was John Booth who became a provincial land surveyor and helped to survey the counties of Leeds and Grenville.

Lillie’s was a shared school between Elizabethtown and Front of Yonge Townships. This means that students from both areas used the school and costs were split between the two townships.

School Superintendents Report (Ontario Archives)

Shows the following information, which in some cases contradicts what we have already researched, and contradicts other filed School Superintendents Reports:

1850: Stone Building, size 26×36, construction date 1845, condition: Poor

1854: Stone building, first opened in 1842

The following information was extracted from the motion papers of the Elizabethtown Council 1855-1872

That $36 dollars of Clergy money be divided amongst the School Sections of this Township in the following manner, namely Sections No 1 $10, No 12 $5, No 26 $9, No 27 $9.31 cents, No 28 $5, No 29 $2, No 30 $5, No 31 $6 bring union section all the full Sections will leave the sum of $13.11 cents each and the Clerk ? the sum to be paid to the Trustees of each School Section – 1873 (Lyn Museum Archives)