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In 1842 the original frame house was built at the corner of Walkers Line and the No 1 Sideroad for Thomas Corner. Tremaine Map (1858): Thomas Corner. LACAC, \"A Driving Tour of North Burlington (East)\": Crown Grant in 1809 to Thomas Corner. \"He was a colourful character [sic !] who 'shot one woman and killed another'...\" and was hanged in 1858. According to Turcotte, Memories of Pioneer Days, pp. 157 - 158, Tom Corner was a violent alcholic and mistreater of women. A veteran of the battles of Queenston Heights and Lundy's Lane and part of the militia in the 1837 rebellion, he survived an early murder attempt by his brother Richard, who was sent to Kingston penitentiary and died there. Soon after Tom Corner spent 5 years in the Kingston pen for shooting his daughter, but unfortunately did not die there like his brother. In 1857 he shot and killed his wife and niece. He was hanged publicly at Milton and buried in the yard of the Milton Court House (in unconsecrated ground). Soon after William Sherwood bought the property. The title record shows 50 acres sold in 1855 by Thomas Corner to Robert Husband Jr; in 1862 to William Sherwood; in 1901 to Ralph Thompson Sherwood; in 1946 to Albert Moreland Sherwood and his wife Florence Colling Sherwood. The Sherwood family history is summarized in Memories of Pioneer Days, pp. 152-3. Will Sherwood was one of ten Children and youth of John and Hannah Sherwood who emigrated in 1832 with their large extended family from Yorkshire (near Durham, according to Florence Colling Sherwood) and settled in Nassagaweya. Will and his wife Jemima traded the Nassagaweya Farms and Farming for 150 acres on Walkers Line plus $4600. The sellers were his aunt Rebecca and her husband Henry Corner, the son of Thomas Corner. Will & Jemima built a stone house for themselves at the corner of No 1 Sideroad. One of his brothers, Ralph Thompson Sherwood married Marion Ireland and lived for many years on Walkers Line north of Highway 5. 1877 Halton Atlas: the property of William Sherwood (30 acres): 2 houses & orchards. According to the 22 June 1967 Gazette, this is one of Burlington's 28 Centennial Farms and Farmings: purchased by Wm. Sherwood in 1859 - taken over by son Thompson Sherwood in 1890 who built the present barn in 1911 ... Farms and Farminged by his son George Sherwood from 1920 to 1940 and purchased by the present owner, a younger son of Thompson Sherwood in 1940, who during the last 25 years has been engaged in fluid milk production from a good herd of registered Holsteins. The present house was built over 100 years ago. Murray Fisher, \"Farewell to the Garden of Canada\" (1984): M. Sherwood. Mixed Farms and Farminging. Halton Heritage Features Inventory (1981), Ref No. S 69. ARCHITECTURE: The one-and-a-half storey cut field stone structure was built in two stages in the early 1870s. The front-gabled projecting wing is the older structure, with a lower-pitched roof and smaller stones. It is 72 feet long and 20 feet wide. Two years later the side wing, 20 by 18 feet, was added. The end-gabled side wing with a centre gable has large cut field stones of pink and grey tones. The window under the gable is a gothic arch. There are large gothic arched windows on the south elevation of the older wing. According to a 1982 letter from Florence Colling Sherwood (in BHS files): A stone wall through the centre of the house does cause inconveniences at times. The front and back doors are two inches shorter than ordinary doors, causing people over six feet to duck or bump their heads. Originally the house had 12 rooms, a pantry, a summer kitchen, and a wood shed. Several years ago the wood shed was torn down, shortening the house by 20 feet. Today it has 10 rooms, a bathroom and a double garage. The double garage replaces the summer kitchen. Until 1940, every room in the house, except the living room, had a row of square wooden pegs driven into a strip of wood for hanging clothes on. There was only one clothes closet in the house. In 1892 a huge hot air furnace was installed. It took four logs. In 1940, a neighbouring lady told me, \"When I was a small little girl, I was taken to see the furnace.\" It was a novelty in those days. Later the furnace was converted to coal and later still to oil, which is what is used to fuel the house today. The outside of the house is the same today as when it was built, except the verandah has been replaced by a sunporch (1973) and the wood shed torn down. Like many stone houses of the 1870s, it is split level. Situated behind and to the west of the house is a dark wooden structure. This is the frame of the original house from the corner. Mr Thompson Sherwood once said, \"when he was a small boy, he remembered the wooden house at the corner being pulled by a team of oxen across the ridge to be placed about 100 feet from the stone house to be used as an implement shed. It is still used as an implement shed today. Mr Ralf Thompson Sherwood bought the property from his father William Sherwood on June 3rd, 1895. On March 31, 1940, A. M. Sherwood bought the Farms and Farming from the estate of R. T. Sherwood and thrirty-five acres of the property is still in his name in 1982. ENVIRONMENT: A Century Farms and Farming, still in operation. A very well maintained frame barn. USABILITY: INTEGRITY: The replacement 1/1 windows are good. An enclosed front porch replaced the verandah in 1973. 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