Stoned on Asbestos (Hammersly Farmhouse)

Victim of arson in August 2022. Completely gone now.

I tend to scroll around on Google maps for no other reason then why not, I find it interesting to see what everything looks like from above, and sometimes I end up finding a location. This was one of those times. I see a house on Google maps without any distinct paths leading towards it, suspicious. I decide to check it out, and go through the forest so I can have an easy way out if something goes wrong. I step into a clearing and right in front of me, there's the house. Beautiful stone building, although it became evident very quickly that I was not the first person to find it. I wander through the cornfield, I'm about to step up to the house, I look to my right and bam, a brand new Lexus. Needless to say, I left. I came back a few days later with backup (ishootthings) and we successfully made it up to the house without any sign of someone else. We get in, and the house is trashed. Holes in the walls, graffiti everywhere, and burnout tracks from someone who thought it'd be a good idea to bring their dirt bike inside. We explored the basement, made it upstairs and this is when I became especially thankful that I'd brought a mask. In a room, up against a hole in the wall was a pile of grey dirt-like substance. Asbestos. I guarantee whoever was digging that out of the wall did not have a mask, and probably didn't know what they were dealing with. After a bit more exploration, we were off. If you decide to visit this location yourself, please please please, bring a respirator that's rated for asbestos, and if you plan to touch things, gloves.

After further investigation, I found an entry on a Cambridge Heritage PDF listing this building as the Hammersly Farm, built in 1855 with stone from Barrie. Nothing else was there, just an interesting tidbit.

JAN 2021 - Cambridge heritege comittee asks the city to designate this house before it is apparently moved and and possibly damaged by the developer in the massive development that is encroaching on the farmhouse.