O'Hara Mill Homestead

Madoc, ON (Nearby: Eldorado, Tweed, Thomasburg, Springbrook, Roslin)

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638 Mill Road
Madoc, Ontario
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Phone : (613) 473-5216
E-Mail : Click Here to E-Mail us
Outside Web Page : http://ruralroutes.com/orr_city_page.cfm?searchon=madoc&city=madoc
Your Host(s) : c/o Harold Andrews

Tour Group Person Limit: 100

Driving Directions:

• Northwest of Madoc off of Hwy 7...638 Mill Rd. see map above.

Season Details:

• Open May to October: 7 days a week from dawn to dusk. Guided Tours Available May 24 through June: Saturday & Sundays 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. July & August Tuesday to Sunday 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Labour Day to Thanksgiving Weekend Saturday & Sundays 11 a.m. to 4

Description From Owner:

• The O'Hara sawmill was a typical small country mill.
• Constructed in 1848, the O'Hara farmhouse was built by James O'Hara and his brother-in-law, Ben Lear.
• The house illustrates the evolution of a pioneer homestead from it's more primitive stages, to the elegance of the Victorian period and then later in 1938 to a modern day house complete with electricity.
• May 1850, James O'Hara Sr. And his son James O'Hara Jr. entered into a partnership.
• The father agreed to erect and build a saw mill, while the son agreed to supply the site with timber as well as water privileges. This was the beginning of the O'Hara Mill.
• Although the partnership was to lapse after twenty years, the mill continued to cut and sell lumber up until 1908. Some fifty-eight years later, the O'Hara sawmill was a typical small country mill.
• It employed an English Gate or 'Frame Saw' technology in which a massive wooden frame stretched the saw blade taut while both the frame and blade were driven up and down by water power. Water also powered the log carriage towards the moving blade.
• James O'Hara later called 'Squire', was 21 when he married Mary Healey. In a ledger entry dated July 30, 1877 he noted, 'its 54 years to the day since I arrived in Madoc. Mary, James, and 4 year old Elizabeth arrived Madoc Township in the, summer of 1823
• $2.00 Adults, $1.00 children...group rates available.

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Off the beaten track:

Hazzards Corners, 7km White Lake, Madoc area, 7km Crookston, 8km Ivanhoe Station, 10km Rimington, 11km Queensborough, 11km Lodgeroom Corners, 9km Ivanhoe, 12km Buller Siding, 10km Buller, Tweed, 10km