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Farm of David Roberts
- Museum / Archive
- Elgin County Archives
- Part Of
- Sparta Sorosis Women's Institute fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- GMD
- graphic material
- Date Range
- ca. 1940
- Accession Number
- 2022-54
- Storage Location
- M2 S1 Sh6 B1 F2 31
- M2 S1 Sh6 B1 F2 32
- Museum / Archive
- Elgin County Archives
- Part Of
- Sparta Sorosis Women's Institute fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Accession Number
- 2022-54
- Storage Room
- Archives 4th Floor Storage Room
- Storage Location
- M2 S1 Sh6 B1 F2 31
- M2 S1 Sh6 B1 F2 32
- GMD
- graphic material
- Date Range
- ca. 1940
- Series
- Sparta Sorosis Women's Institute fonds- Tweedsmuir History series
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 8.5 x 13 cm
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 8 x 13 cm
- Scope and Content
- Two photographs showing the buildings on the former David Robert's farm, ca. 1940.
David Roberts was a native of Wales and in 1854 purchased 400 acres south east of Sparta. He purchased an additional 100 acres to have a right-of-way to his property.
(31) shows the brick house he built in 1862. 110,000 bricks made on the farm for the house. He named his house "Glen Avon Hall" after a home in Wales that it resembled.
(32) shows men on a wagon outside one of the farm buildings built about 1826.
Included in the Sparta Sorosis Women's Institute Tweedsmuir History Book, Volume Two.
- Name Access
- Sparta Sorosis Women's Institute
- Sparta (Ont.)
- Subject Access
- Tweedsmuir Histories
- Women's Institutes
- Website / Street View Notes
- Link directs to the source information for this image, from the Tweedsmuir book.
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