Restin' in Carrville Cemetery Traditional Cache
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Restin' in Carrville Cemetery
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These "Restin'" caches are a series of camouflaged bison-tubes that will take you to historical and sometimes forgotten cemeteries. Some of these date back to the mid 1800's and are the final resting place of pioneers from this area.
Please pay the utmost respect when walking through these sites. Taking a few moments to read the information that went onto the stonework will ensure that these individuals will not be forgotten.
Please bring a pencil or pen to sign the log.
One of the Uxbridge Bartons grew up in this area. It is unfortunate that the church has been separated from the cemetery and is no longer a United church. Decendants of the Uxbridge Bartons can be found in the cemetery. Have a look for the Barton and Middleton headstones to find our family.
Like many other pioneer congregations, the Primitive Methodists of Carrville began meeting in local homes prior to the erection of the church. In 1850, a frame church was erected on a lot on the northeast corner of Carrville Road and Bathurst Street. Less than ten years later, the congregation required a larger building. Fortunately, this was made possible by the generosity of parishioner Thomas Cook, a mill owner who had emigrated from England in 1833. Cook not only provided the land and funds for the building, but boarded the men employed to construct it.
The church, then referred to as Cook's Mills Primitive Methodist Church, was a simple structure built using homemade bricks produced in the area. The windows are gracefully arched but not ornately glazed.
More recent additions include a Sunday School room and a kitchen on the north end of the church. The name of the church became Carrville Methodist Church with the Methodist church union in 1884, and Carrville United Church in 1925 when the Methodist and Presbyterian Churches merged.
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