Mount ForestMount Forest is located at the junction of Highways 6 and 89 on a height of land near the headwaters of the Saugeen River. "Sobre este título" puede pertenecer a otra edición de este libro.ĭescripción Paperback. Gobles then became part of the rural mail delivery on R.R. ![]() Force, farmer, thresher, storekeeper, from Apto May 1, 1940, when the office was closed. All of the postmasters kept the post office in the same general store started by W. The name of the post office was changed to Gobles on November 1, 1895. He became postmaster on Apand resigned on August 15, 1896. He continued this for four years until 1867. Goble carried mail on foot six times per week from the Gobles Corners post office to the railway station for which he received $37.00. For nine months commencing October 1, 1863, Jasper G. Twelve trips per week were made for two months in 18 and again in September 1863 in connection with the travelling post office. Goble also had the contract for mail conveying from Gobles Corners post office to the railway station. Between Septemand September 30, 1863, the pay was $50.00 per year for two trips per week. Two trips per week were made by horse or vehicle. Alex Milmine made one trip per week for two months between July and September 1855. Goble as postmaster with a mail route begun between Gobles Corners and Princeton. A post office was established at Gobles on July 1, 1855, with William L. When the railway was built the station bore the name "Gobles". He held the position until Decemwhen he resigned. He kept the office in his general store on the west side of the Blenheim Township three quarter town line near the G.W.R. Jacob Goble was elected first Deacon of the Blenheim Free Communion Church (Baptist) in 1822. Jacob Goble, who came to Canada from New York State in 1811 and settled on Concession 1 of Blenheim Township about 1816. In 1855 Gobles Corners was named after the late William L. A third high school was founded in 2004 with the combination of the Mount Forest District High school and the neighboring Town of Arthur.GoblesGobles is located on concession 1 of Blenheim Township about two miles west of Princeton. The first high school was originally in the Old Drill Hall, but was an unsuitable location because it was beside the Market Square where livestock sales were held monthly. For the first year, the newspaper was sent to village residents free of charge, but the second year it began charging 50 cents per year.The first public school was built in 1856. Later that year the railway was completed and the first train entered Mount Forest pulled by a wood-burning engine.A local newspaper, the Mount Forest Confederate, was first printed in 1867. The 1871 town directory stated that Mount Forest had ten hotels, eight churches and eighteen stores. By 1879 it had become an incorporated town. By 1864, the population had grown to 1185 so that it qualified to be incorporated as a village. ![]() The name change came about because it was discovered that the village was actually on the Saugeen River system not on the Maitland River as had previously been supposed.The village was surveyed into lots in 1853. Originally known as Maitland Hills, its name was changed to Mount Forest in 1853. In 1871, eighteen years after the town was surveyed, it had ten hotels, eight churches and eighteen stores the first train came into Mount Forest later that year.Prior to European settlement, present day Mount Forest was prime hunting ground for the Saugeen Ojibway peoples due to its location on the Saugeen River.
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