The British Hotel for TBs @ Cumnock ON Traditional Cache

This is the British Hotel for TBs @ Cumnock ...

I have as yet to ascertain the actual location of the British Hotel at Cumnock, but this geocache commemorates its historicity and location here at Cumnock.  See the History below.

The Geocache ...

This cache is a true Traditional geocache as the container is located at the posted coordinates.  There is room for both TBs and SWAG.

Parking...

Recommended parking coordinates is at roadside - on the south(ish) side of Wellington County Road 17.  Parking on King's Highway 6 is never recommended.  Please be careful as Wellington County road 17 can be very busy at times with many larger trucks.

Historically...

King's Highway 6 is a major trunk highway which traverses the entire width of Southern Ontario from Port Dover on Lake Erie to Tobermory, at the tip of the Bruce Peninsula. The highway also has a discontinuous northern section which extends from South Baymouth on Manitoulin Island northerly to Espanola. The highway passes through a predominantly rural area, occasionally passing through some cities and small towns. 

Prior to the development of the King's Highway, one of the early pioneer trails ran from Guelph to Owen Sound.  It was generally called the "Owen Sound Road".  One of the stopping places along this trail was at the location of Cumnock - Highway 6 and Wellington County 17.  There was much glee over the commencement, in June 1851, of a weekly stagecoach between Guelph and Owen Sound via Elora, Fergus and Arthur. 

Shortly after, Scottish immigrant James Samson with his parnter, John Muir, built the Red Lion Hotel in 1852.  Samson 'went back to Scotland several times to bring back wives to Cumnock'.   Later, the partners split and Muir opened his own hotel and named it the British Hotel in competition with Samson.  Samson added a store to his growing list of business and opened the town’s first post office naming it after Cumnock in Scotland.  The Wellington Grey and Bruce Railway built a line through Cumnock in 1871, and a station was built there."   The village grew to include a blacksmith, a cheese factory, a shoemaker, a flax mill, a sawmill, a wagon maker and a small number of houses.  As the railroads came through the area, traffic along the roads dwindled and the town began to decline."

Sources:
http://www.ghosttowns.com/canada/ontario/cumnock.html
https://www.revolvy.com/main/index.php?s=Cumnock,+Ontario
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cumnock,_Ontario
http://www.thekingshighway.ca/Highway6.htm
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ontario_Highway_6#Guelph_to_Owen_Sound