Gallery
Cobblestones Photo Album
Perth Courier Story Circa 1990
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- The Road from Westport to Bolingbroke about 1950. The Cobblestone property was a remote, out-of-the-way place.
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- A corner of the Cobblestone property about 1950. Barren hill top and new growth forest show transformation from pre-WWI logging and farming.
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- The first stone cottage, before the stones, about 1935.
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- Adding a bedroom to the first cottage, now covered in stones, about 1950.
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- Building the fourth cottage, foundations, about 1950.
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- Building the fourth cottage, wood frame and cobblestones going up, 1950.
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- The Cobblestone property form the road, about 1950.
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- The builder, Charles Keeley, early 1940’s. The property was originally known as Keeley’s Landing.
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- A maturing property by about 1975. Trees have grown up and improvements are made to water supply and discharge.
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- The once denuded landscape now has a groomed lawn, several gardens, and mature trees of maple, oak, willow, cedar and pine varieties, ca 1975.
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- The main house with three bay garage, falling into disrepair about 1975.
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- Another sign of gardens, beautiful flower beds and planters by a cottage porch, about 1975.
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- Cottage #1 from the roadside, about 1980.
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- More gardens, spring 1980.
