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- . TWEEDSMUIR HISTORY, as recorded by Greenrock Women's Institute:
- Allan Family lived in the hop house while the new house was being built in 1891. Mrs. John Allen caught cold when they moved into the n3w house & died in Feb 1891. The hop house built John Allan Sr. was a large frame building east of the dwelling with a huge stove at one end for hops & press that packed them into bales, similar to happy & stray bales. A new barn was but in 19156 using part of the old barn & hope house. The wall was built by Bill & Joe Swindlehurst of Ballinfad & many of the neighbors came to help with the raising of barn beams as was the custom in these days.
Following John Allan's death in 1929, his wife sold the farm to son Chester & his wife Florence (daughter of Mr & Mrs. Fred Johnston who lived nearby on the NW Half Lot 5, Con 3, Erin Twp.
There were 6 children bon to this 3rd generation on the family farm, Names: Verne, does (Mrs. Murray, Scoyne), Helen (Mrs. John Wesno), Muriel (Mrs. Al Lang), Gordon & Wayne. This family attended the local school Greenock, as did their parents & grandmother Allan, who went there for her las year.
Mixed farming had been carried on over the years & always included laying hens. There had always been an apple orchard, the latest tweets being set out about 1935..
Some of the improvements & additions to help with this farming business in the years that followed included: a cement block silo built 1935 for $185. & 1944 lightning rods were placed on barn & house.
The TELEPHONE was installed in 1930 & ELECTRICITY in 1949.
. The first water system was a 21 ft. well dug close to the house, built up with stones. David Allen had dug a 26 ft. well at the barn which was first cribbed with wood &later cleared out & cement tiles replaced the wood in 1918.
. 1969 Chester & Florence sold the farm which had been in the Allan family for 3 generations - 114 years - & held a clearing auction sale. Mr. Geo Mile & family from Acton bought the farm.
Chester & Florence with their youngest son Wayne, who was still in elementary school, moved to a new house on Churchill Road in Acton, where they were looking forward to enjoy their retirement.
Ref: Wellington Co. Museum & Archives (Slightly abbreviated). - - -
. The Allan Farm
On lot 7, con. 3, was one of the earliest to be taken from the Crown; but the Allan family did not come until the spring of 1855. John Allan came from Hamilton, & was a carpenter who had learned his trade in Scotland. He paid 287 pounds for the 200 acres, built a house & barn & a shed for drying hops. He planted hops, & packed them in large bales when dry. On a good year a democrat load would bring $600. The old house was burned in 1889, & replaced by the brick house. From 1860-1862, a lumber company had a mill on this farm, & bought up all the hardwood in the area. It was hauled to Acton by Oxen, & shipped to England & Scotland for ship building. John Allan married Jane Moore. In 1890, the farm was sold to their second son, John Allan, who married Rubina Auld, & there they lived the rest of their lives. Mrs. John Allan sold the farm in 1929, to son Chester & his wife, the former Florence Johnston. They had 6 children.
Ref: History of Erin Twp. - - - [1]
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