William Ellicott Home

William Ellicott was born in 1849 in Pickering, the son of Joseph (Harry) Ellicott and Susan Tolsher. Joseph had emigrated from England in 1843, eventually settling on a property on concession 5, Lots 16 and 17 in Pickering township, just south of Brougham. Joseph died in 1877, and his sons Harry and William took over the farming. William eventually took over the property on lot 16, Harry on lot 17.

The property is also just down the road from the ghost town of Howell's Hollow.

From Mydea: A small farm house located across from a decommissioned land fill on the outskirts of Brougham. Couldn't get into the house on this visit due to new fortification of the doors and windows. A few small outbuildings sit on the property and a barn that is in very poor condition. Looks like the barn has been finished on the upper levels but I could not find a way up from the lower level. All and all, not a very exciting visit. I left wondering what the house hid inside...

Some Info from Venantius:

A few things to mention,

The old concrete shed witht he "420" spraypainted on the wall was an old milkhouse that I had renovated and moved into. I lived in there from 12-16 years of age (it looked WAAAAY better when I lived there lol) the heater was an electric woodstove, and I had the same lights in the ceiling that are in there now.

The large barn between the house and that shed was a carpenters worksop, as per my Dad's profession. The bottom level was the workshop proper and the upper level was a combined storage area and residential space that a friend of the family had built up there and lived in for a number of years beginning in 1998.

The house itself is fairly straight forward. The building, as you know is heavily secured and fortified from forced entry, and after some speculation after my own visit, is that is is very probable that a motion sensor is behind the access point that is queued to the Police station at Brock and #2. this was something that they've started doing after they found that house with the prison built into it about a year and a half-two years ago.

There used to be a pool there as well just opff the back of the house. it was an above ground pool with a deck built around it, and a Garden on the north side.