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Tapleytown was one of the first areas of Upper Stoney Creek to be settled and still retains a great deal of its Loyalist beginnings.

The roads, farms, and fields of this hamlet, centred around the crosscroad churches and school, still evoke a country flavour.

Thankfully development of the area has been through large lots and single family dwellings, so a great deal of the sense of the history of Tapleytown remains.

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Map of Tapleytown
1997
Tapleytown
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Tapleytown United Church.
2000
Tapleytown
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Farmers Institute flyer From the Erland Lee Museum collection.
1890
Tapleytown
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Condon and Thomas family house
1900
Tapleytown
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Tapleytown Road marks the 4th line east of Centennial Parkway, and is considered Tapleytown's "other main street".

A former school (now a church) and the area's best sugar bush are just two of the road's features.

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Lee School (Saltfleet School No. 9)
1900
Tapleytown
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Lee School
1930
Tapleytown
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Vinemount Christian Assembly (Lee School)
2000
Tapleytown
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The Thomas family is one of Tapleytown's oldest families, and produced an important political figure, Reeve Leslie Thomas, in the middle of the 20th century.

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Thomas family
1910
Tapleytown
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Thomas family
1925
Tapleytown
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Leslie Thomas
1930
Tapleytown
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Leslie Thomas and children
1930
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