Butterfield Post Office Site
36-1-29
1884
GPS: 49* 4.857’N  101* 14.417’W

Henry Dann and Dr. Joseph Dann emigrated from Tipperary, Ireland. Henry married Margaret Ann Pew in 1879, three of their ten children, namely Joseph, John Henry and James Alfred (who died in infancy) were born when they lived at Muskoka. In 1885 when Henry Dann, his wife and family homesteaded on SE 36-1-29 Thomas, Eva, Olive and Grace were born. The family kept the Butterfield Post Office and had a Stop-over house on the Boundary Commission Trail. Dr. Joseph Dann homesteaded NE 36-1-29. The Danns moved to the Thirlstane School District in the Deloraine area about 1890.


  This appears to be the remains of a sod hut.



 

Copley Anglican Church Ruins
SE 14-1-29
301.B.1
1892 / Deconsecrated 1913
GPS: N49.03012, W101.25183

St. George’s Anglican Congregation

 

Copley Anglican Church, erected in 1892 (1967)
Mb. Archives


 


Copley School
SW 16-1-29
Moved from S 4-1-29
301.E.1
1894
GPS:  N49.02974, W101.31080
Named after Edward Copley, 1889 pioneer who homesteaded the half section.

First teacher – Jennie Beveridge

The Copley School District was established formally in January 1895, named for local homesteader Edward Copley Thompson, and it operated a school in the Rural Municipality of Edward. Located initially near S4-1-29W, it was moved to SW16-1-29W in 1931. The school closed in 1956. As of 2012, the building still stands on the site 
 


Copley Cemetery
SE 14-1-29
301.F.1
1892





Lyleton Cemetery
NE 10-1-28
301. F.4
1890 -93
GPS: 49* 1.785’N  101* 8.938’W



Land obtained from Mr. A.M. Lyle




  

 
Border Monument
SE6-1-29
301. F.5
1925, 1970
GPS: 48* 59.972’N  101* 21.722’W



 
Leech Farm Site

Large barn with original siding and features
Newer roof





Amos Lyle House

1910’s
Build by Amos Lyle




 
  Don Murray Farm House

1900’s




  
Lyle Stone House




Burned out
Faces the USA Border
Location of smuggler’s stories



 
  
Henderson Homestead

Joseph Henderson

Early settler and Reeve of the old R.M. of Arthur
Also the site of smuggling stories

Joseph was councillor in the original Arthur municipality and helped choose the names for Arthur and Edward municipalities at the time of the division. Later he was reeve of the Edward municipality for several years
 
 



Moore Farm Site & Ice House

Property owned by W.White. sold in 1926  to Robert Moore



Buildings include a stone ice house, frame house and poured concrete outbuilding.
Ice was brought in from the nearby creek each winter.



Poured concrete outbuilding




  
Reekie Stone House


 

In 1900 Philip Reekie had Mason Ken McLeod –and carpenters, Dick & Jack Murray build this a large two-storey stone house.

As years passed, improvements were made-water was piped into the house and about 1914 a power washer with gasoline engine was in use. In 1917 a Delco lighting plant was installed. With electric lights in the house and barn, also, a yard light, the days of the sod shanty and coal oil lamps were past.
 




Wes Foster Barn

Built by Wes Foster





Buick Barn and Farm Site
Vacant, but in good condition.
The Buicks were early settlers
 




Former Antler Store

Store moved from nearby Antler ND and converted as a farm residence. Home to the Buick family for many years.
Traditional false front small business structure. Likely added to a residence.
Situated along South Antler Creek – very close to Border.


 


 

South Antler Creek Bridge
SE 9-1-28
301. M.1
1920’s
GPS: 49* 0.954’N  101* 9.633’W

South Antler Creek

 
 

 
Antler Road Crossing
W 6-1-28
ca. 1920
GPS: 49* 0.340’N  101* 15.003’W

 
Site of a bridge on the old road to Antler N.D.  about 1km from the border.

Approaches remain but no structure is evident in 2016.

Also site of the Tooke Homestead.



 

Griffith Cabin Site

Josh Griffith, a WW1 Veteran and remittance man, was so distressed by news of WW2 that he dug a WW1 style trench
in from of his small cabin. Traces remain.