This is part three of a series on the historic hamlets around Newmarket. We continue our travels in the Township of King. Some of these historic hamlets still exist, perhaps in a reduced capacity, but you’ll find remnants of their existence if you know where to look. We begin our excursion with the hamlet of Rafferty’s Corners,…
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King George School Opened In 1913 In Booming Newmarket!
In our continuing series on the history of Newmarket schools, I’m featuring another of the schools that I attended, King George School on Park Avenue at Church Street. As rapid growth continued to occur in Newmarket, King George was built to alleviate a severe shortage of educational resources on the west side of town. The Newmarket newspaper of the time…
When A Runaway Wife Was A Man’s Stolen Property
An article in the November 1877 edition of the Newmarket Era tells a story that may seem a little strange to us today, though it would have been taken very seriously back then, which I think gives us a pretty clear glimpse into the social norms of the time and what passed for news back…
