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In 1889, seventy-six years after the Battle of Stoney
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when he uncovered human bones and bits of cloth
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Stoney Creek flows over the Devil’s Punchbowl.
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Beswick’s, on King St., was the last active blacksmith
shop in Stoney Creek. In the 1930s, McDougalls’
garage replaced it as the world moved from horses
to cars. You can still service your car there today.
The Powerhouse is not just a colourful name for a
local restaurant. It produced electricity for the
Hamilton, Grimsby and Beamsville electric railway
from 1894-1899. Unfortunately the creek dried up
too often, so the entire building, which once had a
towering smokestack, was shut down in 1899 and
became a Hydro storage building for the next 75
years.
The Powerhouse.
Stoney Creek Community Park has been the site of
baseball, cricket, tug of wars, Flag Day celebrations
and many other activities for over 90 years. Many
things have changed at and near the park but the
baseball diamond remains a consistently popular
place.
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The Stoney Creek Speedway Park opened in 1961 at
the NE corner of Mud and Centennial. Originally
built with a wide, fast dirt track with good banking, it
ran on Friday nights in the early years. Sold in 1971,
the new owners paved the track. Direct competition
with Cayuga and Flamborough led to its closure in
1975. The remains of the tracks are still there, north
of Mud Street.
Canada's first Drive In Theatre opened in 1946 at
Highway 8 and Gray's Rd Saltfleet student (and later
Supreme Court Justice). John Sopinka was one of the
ushers on opening night of the Skyway. The location
is now the site of Fiesta Mall, which was constructed
in 1971-72 after the closure of the theatre. The
Starlite Drive-in, located on Green Mountain Road is
the only one still operating in the Hamilton area. The
Starlight Drive-In opened in 1959 and now has space
for 425 cars. The Starlight is still going strong today,
open in the spring, summer & fall.
Adam Green built his log cabin in 1791 near Green
Mountain Road and Upper Centennial Parkway. His
son, Billy Green was born Feb. 4, 1794. He was one
of the first children born to a Loyalist family of
Upper Canada. He is renowned for assisting
the British prior to the Battle of Stoney
Creek on June 6, 1813. He is reputed to have relayed
the American password to the British Forces.
Buildings and names have changed but the high
school students remain on site on Gray’s Road. First
opened as Saltfleet High School in 1927 and rebuilt
in the late 1940s, the site was transferred to the
Hamilton-Wentworth Catholic District School
Board and a new building erected for Cardinal
Newman High School in 1999.
Adam Green’s log cabin.
The Galbraith family began the Pines Hotel as a hot
dog stand in 1925. It became a successful restaurant
and motor inn during the 40s & 50s, then a high end
restaurant. It remained in the Galbraith family until its
demolition to make room for a mini-mall in the 1980s.
The Church of the Redeemer, 25 Lake Ave. Stoney
Creek, was consecrated in 1877 as the only Anglican
Church between Hamilton and Grimsby.
The tradition of a display of lights atop the Devil's
Punch Bowl originated with the annual decorating by
Alice and Clifford Freel, who illuminated a tree every
Christmas. In 1966, when the Freel’s tree died, local
hydro workers, Bill Sinclair, Murray Hyslop and Bert
Tyman erected a steel cross in its place.
The Acacia Hotel, a popular place since the 1830s,
was gutted by fire in the 1920s. It was rebuilt and is
now The Village Restaurant. The original west wall of
the hotel is still visible in the restaurant’s wall.
Stoney Creek Dairy.
A proud tradition is enjoying an ice cream from the
Stoney Creek Dairy. George Dawson opened the
Dairy in a garage at the back of his home on King
Street and has served ice cream from 1941 to the
present day. The serving trays were so popular that
the dairy began adding the words, “Stolen from the
Stoney Creek Dairy.”
Alice (Lee) Freel, daughter of Erland and Janet Lee,
was the first woman to hold an executive position
on Stoney Creek Town Council when she became
Clerk Treasurer in 1926. She served in this position
until 1946. She and her husband lived at Jubilee Hall
near the Devil’s Punch Bowl. Her home still stands
across from the modern Punch Bowl market.
Yes there really is a Stoney creek! A ribbon falls, 37
metres high, it flows over the Devil’s Punch Bowl, a
huge geographical gully, over the escarpment and
continues through the old town of Stoney Creek.
Stoney Creek’s first 3 storey building was originally
called The Institute, then Century Square. It is now
the Milmine building. It has been the village council
hall, train/bus stop, Masonic meeting hall, medical
building, pharmacy, and insurance office.
Alva Jones opened the first General Store in Stoney
Creek in the 1830s. The first post office opened
there in 1832. The building was the site of the Millen
Store and the Gaol. It is now the Warsaw
Restaurant.
A small family pioneer cemetery is located on the
side of busy Mud Street. Early members of the
Felker family, including settlers Hiram & Mary Felker
are interred there. Felker’s Falls Conservation Area
is named after the Felker family, original owners of
most of the escarpment land north of Mud Street in
the Paramount Drive vicinity.
The Institute/Century Square/Milmine Building.