HORACEVILLE

NAME: Horaceville COUNTY: -- ROADS: 2WD GRID: 1 CLIMATE: Snow in Winter, Warm Summer. BEST TIME TO VISIT: Summer

COMMENTS: Semi-ghost. REMAINS: Original buildings throughout newer ones.

Having had a distinguished career in the British army, his reward was a land grant on the shore of the Ottowa River. It was there that Hamnet Kirkes Pinhey began a new life as an importer, insurance broker, and politician, all with considerable success. He created his own village on his estate at Pinhey Point on the Ottowa River. He constructed a grist mill and provided log houses for employees and in the true tradition of feudal England, he built a massive limestone manor house for himself complete with small but threatening cannons on the terrace. In the village, there was a church, stables, a powder magazine, and barns for the livestock. In time, the land was donated to the Pinhey�s Point Foundation. The Foundation has restored much of Horaceville and has opened it to visitors including the manor house. Submitted by: Henry Chenoweth

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