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Altona Ghost Town in Progress

Unknown Ghost Town in Pickering, Ontario

Jun 30 2010

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The nicest century home in the village belonged to the famed Reesors.
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Laneway to a removed home that existed here since the 1880s.
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More typical, modern home that the feds have boarded up.
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School house built 1911.
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Mennonite church built 1852. Last service held was in 1974.
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Abandoned farmstead.
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The hotel may be restored one day.
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The old soccer field and baseball diamond are now overgrown with grass.
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Union Church built 1875.
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Reesors and Stouffers populated the entire area.
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Just south of Altona is another smaller hamlet called Atha Road (called Atha in the 1880's). This was their school #16 built 1864.
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Looking east into the ghost hamlet of Atha Road. The Atha post office (circa 1880) existed on the right side as far as you can see in this photo.
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One possible site of the post office in 1878.

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