Homesteads

West of Herkimer’s Nose, a point of land just outside Kingston, three early highways ran to the provincial capital of York – the Danforth Road completed in 1802, the York-Kingston Road finished in 1817, the old Highway 2. Along them sprang up settlements – assemblages of inns, mills, churches, and houses. The Loyalists were early arrivals, followed by immigrant families from across the Atlantic an...