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Site Inventory / Page 7 / Neelin Area

Neelin United Church
Neelin
1936


History

Land donated by W. Henwood

F, Atterbury – local carpenter

Features

-   stone foundation

Joseph Neelin House
Neelin
1895


History

Joseph Neelin
- lime from local kiln
- home of Post Office until 1905
 


Features


House
Neelin
ca. 1910


History


Features

- wood siding
- porch


House
Neelin
ca. 1910

History

Features

-  wood shingle siding on upper level

Neate’s Barber Shop & Pool Room
Neelin
ca. 1922


History
 
- Fred Neate
- later Dick Vesey’s barber shop followed by Mr. Young and then Joe Barnes
- then Winram’s Restaurant & Store
-   also Neate’s residence

Features


Argyle Cemetery
SE 35-4-14
1888

History

Land donated by pioneer Peter Strang

Features

Neelin Cemetery
NW 19-3-14
1917

History

Land bought from Manitoba Land Co.

Features

-   nice location – atop valley ridge


Waitt Barn
NW 4-4-14 
1910

History

Bruce Waitt
- Later Garnet / then Calvin Darling – related by marriage

Features

-   early use of steel-cladding



Alex Huffman Farm House
NE 20-4-14 
ca. 1905


History

Alex Huffman purchased farm from Robert Johnson  

Features


McLaren Stone Outhouse
NE 2-4-14
ca. 1950

History

Site homesteaded by Archie McLaren in ca. 1882

Features

-  still useable!
-  ventilation port, vertical wood door
- segmental arch over doorway



Preston Lime Kiln
23-3-14
1893


History

Preston Brothers and Herman Davis

Features

- operated 1893 - 1903
- one of the largest kilns in Western Manitoba
- well-preserved – accessible location
- one of two Preston family lime kilns.
- This one had a 20 bushel capacity



Neelin Town Site
SW 19-3-13 

History

Site bought ca. 1890 by Joseph Neelin from John Monatague

-   town created by the arrival of the Wakopa Branch, 1904, Canadian Northern Railway
- station built 1905



Features