Paul Grimwood
“Can anyone confirm the actual site of Elsinore, Senator Sanford's provate hospital on the Beach? When it was opened in June 1890, guests were taken by a private train to 'Church Crossing', and walked from there.”
Fred
“Before the Radial Line came to the Beach, the railway stopped at a platform behind Elsinore, and Elsinore also had a dock or pier on the bayfront.
While Elsinore was definitely on the Lake side of the road, there are people from the beach who believe that it was on the Bay side.”
Hi Paul and Fred, I wish I had found this before making my last post.
1893 - “The Hamilton Steamboat Co. was calling for tenders for the construction of a wharf at Burlington Beach on the 30 January. It was to be situated on the Armstrong property, near Church Crossing and was to be 600 feet long. It was primarily for the use of the steamer MAZEPPA.”
http://www.maritimehistoryofthegreatlakes.ca/documents/Brookes/default.asp?ID=Y1893
Fred,
(1) was this the same pier as was refered to in my last post?
(2) , what was ‘church crossing’?
(3) Where does the ‘armstrong property’ fit in to things? Was this a family who lived on the beach?
“Can anyone confirm the actual site of Elsinore, Senator Sanford's provate hospital on the Beach? When it was opened in June 1890, guests were taken by a private train to 'Church Crossing', and walked from there.”
Fred
“Before the Radial Line came to the Beach, the railway stopped at a platform behind Elsinore, and Elsinore also had a dock or pier on the bayfront.
While Elsinore was definitely on the Lake side of the road, there are people from the beach who believe that it was on the Bay side.”
Hi Paul and Fred, I wish I had found this before making my last post.
1893 - “The Hamilton Steamboat Co. was calling for tenders for the construction of a wharf at Burlington Beach on the 30 January. It was to be situated on the Armstrong property, near Church Crossing and was to be 600 feet long. It was primarily for the use of the steamer MAZEPPA.”
http://www.maritimehistoryofthegreatlakes.ca/documents/Brookes/default.asp?ID=Y1893
Fred,
(1) was this the same pier as was refered to in my last post?
(2) , what was ‘church crossing’?
(3) Where does the ‘armstrong property’ fit in to things? Was this a family who lived on the beach?