by Bill Finlayson | Apr 25, 2018 | Patterson Village 19th Century Company Town
Patterson Village continues to present new and fascinating discoveries. This week we discuss a feature which appears to be a unique find in excavations in southern Ontario. Since 2006, the majority of our work has been east of the Niagara Escarpment. It is there we...
by Bill Finlayson | Apr 18, 2018 | Patterson Village 19th Century Company Town
Our investigation of the privies at Patterson Village continues. You may recall, in our last blog, we discussed an amazing box privy associated with the closing of the Boarding House after Patterson & Bro. farm equipment manufactory moved to Woodstock in 1886. Not...
by Bill Finlayson | Apr 13, 2018 | Patterson Village 19th Century Company Town
Thanks for joining me again. In my last blog we discussed the box privies associated with the houses at Patterson Village, and today we examine the single box privy found northeast of the boarding house. This specific box privy was similar in size to the other box...
