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There is no more historic or remantic trail
tlhan
that of the old Indian trail between the Niag
ara River and
Lalce Erie, now cafled the Ridge Read,
The trail started at.
Millerâ€™ a Greek and continued past 5t. JOhnâ€™s
Anglican 0hurohi
the Fenien id 1att1eground, and tbrougI the
main street of
the village of Ridgeway to the lake at AbinoB.y
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Niagara River along what is nw Fort Erie and the
Peace Rridge.
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feet below the plain and often near the edge of
a straight wal].
of rock.
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was a log cabin built close to the
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of the niagara River a
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first town meeting of which any record emists was
held here on
March â€˜T., 1808. The advanced guard of Sir Gordon Dâ€™wxm
iondâ€™ a army
was posted at his house on 23rd September, 18l4, being
an impor
ant road junction. Andrew Miller was a town warden in
1818, 181
1820 and 1827,.
The home of the second Andrew Miller or Andrew Mill
er Jr
(1799-l86V) was on the opposite hank of Miller a Creek.
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It was
built in 1820 and was burned in 1962. A park and traile
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operated by the Niagara Parks Commission
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one place near the

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large slab of rock perhaps tou
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thick that spans this opening. One
end lies on the main limesto
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and the other end on the part that
separated and forms a natural
bridge.
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An interesting story says that this
area was always
wooded and a pasture for horses
and cattle, and once many years
ago, a cow fell in this crevice.
When the cow didnâ€™t appear for
milking, a search party was sent
out and found the cow. lodged in
the narrow space, perhaps six or sev
en feet from the top wit
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hooves pawing the air, nearly 50 feet
from the bottom. So with
ropes and help from the neighbors,
the cow was pulled to safety.
Old residents of the neighborhood reme
mber that opening as bÃ³ing
down 50 feet., but the crevice is now
filled in with brush and
leaves. o one seems to know just why
or how this crevice was
formed.
FENIAN RAID BATTLEUND
This battle took place in 1866 right
in the middle of
the road at the intoraeotion Of the
Garrison Road and the Ridge
Road, according to Mrs Earl Sherk, gra
nddaughter of Dr. Brewster,
who was the doetor in this battle.
The Fenian Rald was carried
out by some 1,500 Irieh-Amerioans
who sought to injure Great
Britain by striking at aanada.
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from BUffalo and seized

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Erie, then a village.

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skirmish was the one which occurred on
the Ridge and Garrison
roads.
The Fenian occupation was brief, howeve
r, as Canadian
militiamen stationed in the Niagara area
drove the raiders back
across the river in loss than twenty-fou
r hours.
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BlÃ¤Ã¸k creek, Bertie township, Niagara was built before 1792
butâ€™ ha no definite record of the date of erection.
Meta Sohooley Laws in her history (1929) of
y in
Asa Sohooley family, a (ueker family who came from New Jerse
1788 and. settled on a farm whioh Is now part of the Cherry Ifill
Golf Club says: â€œThe first log â€˜meeting houseâ€™ was on Ass. 3chooleyâ€™
g
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property near the present â€˜Rarnhartâ€™ School but the Buryin Groun
is just baok of the Ridgeway Memorial Church. RÃ¶re Asa Sohooley

and his wife and eons are buried. This was on a Cutler Far&amp;â€™.
This may well be the first log meeting house of
the Black Câ€™ee Meeting Ã³f4ihioh Dr. Dorland refers. Meta then
of the
goes on to say that the farm Ass settled on is now part
OherryHill Gl Course on the Garrison ad (K:ighway No.3A).
she waa
Part of it was across the road; the Barnhart farms when

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the road where
a child. The property faced the GÃ¡.rriaon Read and
settled
the Ellsworths lived and was north of their property. They
in. Bertie about the same time.
It is believed that the second Black Creek Meeting
nt
house was erected as early as 1805 on the site of the prese
Memorial United in Ridgeway on Pound property.

When Dominion

ery
Riad was laid it went right through this historic quaker Cemet
to the
and destroyed itS, and its few remaining graves were removed
small plot at the rear of the Church.
From â€œThe Beleoted. Writings of William Lyon
Mackenzieâ€ in the Cblonia Advocate, 22 February 1827:
in a
â€œA few miles from Lake Erie, in the township of Bertie,
the
quiet and retired spot, near by a conoession road, stands
Frien4s;
plain and unadorned place of worship of the Society of ing the
On enter
and at a little distance beyond, their school. d Mr. William
gnized in the teacher my old frien
latter, I reoo
him,
Wilson He had from twenty to thirty boys and girls around hy,
healt
The
the children of the neighbouring Quaker families.
placid countenances of the young innocents
happy, cheerful, and.
youth when paoed
it was delightful to look upon. How happy is
t4ae
at a distance from the snares of vice, and far away from

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A boat. service with two vessels called the h*Canadianahl
â€”

and the â€œAmericaaâ€ from 1910 to 1956, steamed froffi Buffalo to

O1â€™stal Beach, every hour on the hour during the

summer.

In. 1797 there were only a few families residing around
eaeb. 0ie of the firat to settle was JOe Morris at the

Csta1

top of BebetÃ³ok, later becoming the Rebstook homoatoad.
â€¢

David

Baxter came to the homestead west of SOhooley Read in the same
yeai.

Eniel Pound resided east of the Ridge Read in 1802.

David Ellwworth settled on Cherry Hill Road. The flaw
to l78, and Hhrrâ€™y Bawn

of

family dates

Haunâ€™ a P3.aning Mill on the Derby Read

has lived there continuously since the village was founded.
Michael and his.

SOfl

Earl, descendants of the Sherkaton Sharks,

resided on Sehooley ROad ainoe the turn of the present century..
Their home is now the Riviera Motel with a swimming pool in the

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orchard.

John Sohooley,a brother of Mrs Michael Shark lived

next door at the top of Schooley ROad.
P0IT .AB.INO:
The point commands a magnificient view of the lake
and the sandy beaches of the neazby bay.

The sand dunes, some

of which reached a height of seventy-five feet are still impres
sive, although hundreds of tons of fine white sand have been
carried away for industrial purposes over the years. Many of
the original trees, some of which were majestic black walnut
were out down for fuel for the lime kiln whiob operated on the
point years ago.
the remains

of

The water in the vicinity of the point holds

many ships and barges which have come to grief

there throughout the years. Many sailing ships used to seek

C_)

shelter from the fierce lake
Bay Beach.

storms in the protective waters of

Later when the lighthouse with its fog horn was b.uilt

it must have seemed like a baven.

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The point was once the site of an Indian village and
â€¢ the old Indian buz7ing ground was rooted very near the Efalo

(D

Yoht Club building.

1â€™4e IMia were Attawandarons or Neutra1

They made flint arrow heads, peaâ€™r points, knives and tomahawks,
and were the great munition makers of their day.

They sold theE

products impartially to the Hurons and the Iroquois, yet retainâ‚¬
an abundance for their own defense. Neither rival dared to attac
or even antagonize a people so powerâ€™fiil.
A, W,

My cousin, the aforesE

(Bert) Itiller has shown me these flint beds al3d told me Of

the â€œGirden of the GQdaâ€ a beautiful natural garden behind one o
the houses Owned by ericana keop it very exo1usie. ala
said no one seems to kow its origin.
â€¢

The point was named for the French preat, Father

Olaude Avenoau, who stayed here for a short time before going to
his mission to the Miamis on the St.Thsepb â€˜whore he served from
about 1702 to 1708.
EAY. .SETTLERS: There was much dispute about land settlement in
early days at Point Abino. It is said the first permanent white
manâ€™ a home here was built in

the 1790â€™ a by a family named Denni

The Dennis family were uakera from Pennsylvania. Be built a one
and half story house of logs and it stood on the south side of
what is now known as Yacht Club fl-ill.

It. stood within one hundre

feet of the Holloway Memorial Chapel erected in the 1890â€™s in
honour of Mr. and Mrs Isaac kiOlloway who owned the land from Hay
Hill to the tip of the point. Holloway held the land under a
crown deed but his neighbour, JJ. Otway Page, also claimed it. Th
dispute was finally settled by the Privy aounoil in London, Eng.
It was found that a surveyorâ€™ a error many years before gave Page
water frontage to whih he was actually not entitled. Page was
awarded the property known as the Pine Woods while L1 I. Hbllow

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