Photograph of Carrville Post Office, Del Brocco and later Sellen family home, n.d.
Early businesses in Carrville included mills, a store and a post office. The flour and sawmills in the village were started by Michael Fisher Sr. in approximately 1820. Thomas Cook was the next entrepreneur in the village, building a sawmill in 1848-49, and a store on Lot 17, Concession 2, before moving it to Lot 16, Concession 2 (lands presently located northeast of Rutherford Road and Dufferin Street). This store served the community for over seventy years, before it was closed and became a private home. The Carrville Post Office was established in 1865 and closed in 1923.
Thomas Cook also provided the land for the church, which was built in 1857 on Lot 16, Concession 2, west of Bathurst Street and north of Rutherford Road, where it remains to this day.
The Carrville Public School was built in 1846 by Nathaniel Burr and was used until approximately 1960, when it was closed and students were bused to other schools.
Some of the oldest families in Carrville that still reside within the vicinity include such names as the Reamans, Bones, Mitchells, Wingers, Bartons, DelBroccos, Woods and Reads.
City of Vaughan Archives: M989.49
Photograph of Carrville Post Office, Del Brocco and later Sellen family home, n.d.
Early businesses in Carrville included mills, a store and a post office. The flour and sawmills in the village were started by Michael Fisher Sr. in approximately 1820. Thomas Cook was the next entrepreneur in the village, building a sawmill in 1848-49, and a store on Lot 17, Concession 2, before moving it to Lot 16, Concession 2 (lands presently located northeast of Rutherford Road and Dufferin Street). This store served the community for over seventy years, before it was closed and became a private home. The Carrville Post Office was established in 1865 and closed in 1923.
Thomas Cook also provided the land for the church, which was built in 1857 on Lot 16, Concession 2, west of Bathurst Street and north of Rutherford Road, where it remains to this day.
The Carrville Public School was built in 1846 by Nathaniel Burr and was used until approximately 1960, when it was closed and students were bused to other schools.
Some of the oldest families in Carrville that still reside within the vicinity include such names as the Reamans, Bones, Mitchells, Wingers, Bartons, DelBroccos, Woods and Reads.
City of Vaughan Archives: M989.49