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$ Sm (f r 2 | /4/;'7/&7 flfaééffi'/y @F;/eiu (Z/'/'he/-j'/ ; ** PALBER oN "GOulton Comnt=ns " iritten by Linnie Carswell Peever....April 14. 19859. . in the early 1860's Goshen Corners consisted of ;; -- four dwelling houses....a blucksmith shop..und a liall, « Phics Ilul]l we.s built by the sons of Temperance w.ich was a very cctive Louge for many years. | Tlls land was Gdonated by & Mr. John ELc Gregor who owned the farm on the Corner west.. in order to get a Js20 for the linll rroperty a smull sum of money hud to be paid, lir Javid Carswell, owner of the property across the road on the east side paid the sum of Twenty «»five cents {8. 25). This HAll was used for the meetings of the jons of Temperence-------- & sunday school~e----------rrayer leetings--e--~~----social svenings and Iolitical meetings. In later years the Society cullou the jons ; of Temperence disbanded, o m B ve ol in 1914 the Goshen somen's Institute was organized and in 1924 , the Goshen .L. bought this Hall from the sons of Temperance for the sum of Forty sollars. (;40.00.) S Gne of the dwelling houses was owned by a lir__________Nesbitt, wio was a weaver by trade, Llany yards of wocl goods and muauny gaod wool blankets were woven in that little square log house, \ . J I Another log home was owned by pavid Carswell Jr. who later moved to s property on the sixth Line ----in 1976 owned by !!r. Nesbitt who caume fupm Nepean Township, w This liome had a asmall grogery *# and dry goods store as well as & 2C3T OSSICs Anown as C.:RJuELL 2.0C. The muil had to be brought from Renfrew P.(, until it could be put off at LAMIELZIE ST&TICHX on the C.P.R. railway, Tho only means of | conveyance at that time was by horse and sleigh in winter and horse and buggy in summer. Sometimes when roads were impassable, the Post.-- master had to walk this distance of some five milese--carrying the weil--bag on hbhis back. This had to be done until tiie Ottawa Lumber King--------J.R. BCOTH in 1890 built a railway through: the settlement-- ~ to his timber linmits in Aalgonqg@in Park --e--snown as the arnprior and Perry Sound Railwayer--when Goshen Station came into being. This ; ' wa: luter linksd with the Cansada atlantic Railway and became paurt of -- the G=aXN= TRUXNK in 1914 which in 1923 became the C.N.R. | About Rural Mail came into being --~----with mail boxes at end of each farm lane »~~--Carswell P,0. disappeared and a Rural Hail | Courier brought the mail from RENPNIY To become Rural moute ;#1. j | | mmother building on the Corner was a BLaCKuNITMNi 2IOP operated by James Campbell who made the lock and a very large KS¥ for the sTons and PCST OZ¥ZICSL DOCR, lip and lirs John E. Miller who until i | larch 1974 lived in the Carsawell »,.0. home,----selling then to lir ana 5 lrs Arthur Byberg who renovated it completely. ~{!!' . o o e i