Actons Corners, Ontario

Acton Corners is a small rural village in eastern Ontario, part of the municipality of North Grenville in the County of Leeds and Grenville.

It is located on the east-west running County Road 43 ( formerly Highway ( Provincial highway ) 43) between Kemptville and Merrickville to connect the northbound to the Rideau River Acton's Corners Road and from the south of Oxford Mills County Road 25

Apart from a secularized church, the archive of North Grenville and a brickworks there in Acton Corners mainly farms and houses in a landscape of farmland and cedar forests.

The mailing address of this town are, as usual in the rural areas of Canada, the Rural Routes assigned, either at Oxford Mills ( RR # 1) or Kemptville (RR # 5).

History

Earlier Bobtown where it only was a blacksmith was located at the point of Acton Corners. At the beginning of the nineteenth century came here with the permission of the County of Oxford, the connecting road that ran between plots 15 and 16. In the late 1820s Robert Acton emigrated with his family from West Connaught in Ireland and settled in Bobtown. Robert's son, John Acton, was an able shoemaker, but worked as a stonemason on the Rideau Canal and later built several buildings in the district, including a flour mill at Oxford Mills and a stone house in Acton Corners, which stands on the site of an old log house. Acton Corners was named after John Acton.

In its heyday, Acton Corners called a post office, a school, two churches, a cheese factory and an Orange Hall, a kind of community center, his own.

The post office was 1890-1912, before it was replaced by the rural mail of Kemptville. A stone school building was opened in 1858 to replace the two wooden school building in east and west of the village.

In 1905 the school was demolished and replaced by a new stone building, which is now known as North Grenville Archives and is used as an archive. The church of the Methodists was built in 1875 with a white facade and St. Augustine, built the stone church of the Anglican, 1879. The Methodist church was sold in 1963 and demolished, and the Anglican Church stands unused for many years. Scott's cheese factory was built in 1886 and was open until 1948. The Orange Hall was closed until the late 1930s, after the building was vacated and sold.