Lost in Limerick Traditional Cache
mtcarmelites: lived it's life and letting it go
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Painted Peanut Butter Jar contains pie fridge magnet, rubber shark, John Deere Tractor, and a Hot Wheels Car, log book, and a pen.
Congratulations Smilenjim for the FTF!!!!!
Included a picture of historic Mt Carmel- the store from the 70's and a view looking west from the main corner.
Mount Carmel (formerly named at various times in the past, Limerick, Cranford and Offa) The community of Mount Carmel was founded in the 1830s and 1840's on the arrival in the area of Irish settlers who had initially resided in the vicinity of Pickering, Ontario, when they first arrived in Canada, but were drawn by advertisements for low cost Canada Company land available in the southern part of the Huron Tract for agricultural purposes.
Rural economic growth in the 1860s and 1870's, in the new province of Ontario, was reflected in Mount Carmel in an expansion of the number of businesses serving the hamlet and the surrounding rural community. At various times Mount Carmel supported three hotels, a general store and post office, a shoemaker, two medical doctors, two blacksmiths,both a cider and chopping mill, as well as a dressmaker, hat shop and telephone exchange. The name of the community became Cranford, on July 1, 1867, with the opening of the first post office. The date coincides with the founding of the country of Canada as a modern state. One year later, the name of the hamlet was again changed, this time to Offa. The cornerstone of the moderately large Roman Catholic church, named in honour of Our Lady of Mount Carmel that presently exists in the community, was laid on July 24, 1887. Its construction was completed in 1888 using bricks from Crediton. The large residence for parish priests,located immediately south of the church, was built in 1909. The community adopted its current name, Mount Carmel, in 1889.
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