UFFINGTON

NAME: UFFINGTON COUNTY: Muskoka ROADS: 2WD GRID: CLIMATE: Snow in winter BEST TIME TO VISIT: Spring summer or fall

COMMENTS: REMAINS: Several of the early village houses still stand, some occupied by those who remember Uffington as a once busy village.

Uffington still retains a small population but compared to its prime a century ago, it is but a vestige. During the 1880s and 1890s the land around Uffington was busy with farmers growing hay and with lumbermen felling the tall pine trees. Two general stores opened about a mile apart. The town developed between the two locations and included three churches Anglican, Presbyterian, and Methodist. There was a two-story hotel, a blacksmith shop, an agricultural society, and a town hall.

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