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P5574

ID Number: P5574
Item Name: Image
Title: First Council Chambers at Leonard Wigle's Farm / Premières chambres du conseil à la ferme de Leonard Wigle
Title (Fre): Premières chambres du conseil à la ferme de Leonard Wigle
Date: 1875
Description: Black and white photograph of the first council chambers located at the farm of Leonard Wigle in Leamington, Mersea Township; the building is a one-storey wooden building with a peaked roof; the front of the building has a flat section extending above the roof in a stepped format; there is a set of wooden double doors (left side open) and one window is visible to the right of the doorway; there is one window visible on the side of the building and a chimney on the roof at the back; there are other buildings partially visible beside and behind the building
History: This building was built by Mersea Township in 1830, behind the Old Wigle Tavern (or Uncle Lennie's Tavern) and all council meetings for Mersea were held here. Early proprietors of the tavern were Leonard and Jane Wigle and it was (in 1958) a tourist home located at 135 Talbot Street East in Leamington. Leonard Wigle died in 1878 and his funeral procession was 2 miles long, one of the largest funerals ever known in Essex South in the nineteenth century.
Place made: Canada - Ontario - Mersea Township
Collection Name: Museum Windsor

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