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Vinemount and Tweedside have a shared history. They can be liked to a pair of siblings, Vinemount being bigger, Tweedside smaller.

This part of Saltfleet Township was one of the last settled areas, for the land was less desireable to the pioneers in part due to the distance from the lake (and other potable water sources) and the presence of the Vinemount Swamp. The land was not as fertile and the distances to market great.

For this reason Tweedside never rose beyond a hamlet, but Vinemount for a time threatened to rival Winona. Today they are still relatively rural and isolated from urban Stoney Creek.

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Vinemount was centred around the top of the McNeilly Road access and Ridge Road. The Vinemount Road (now Eighth Road E.) linked the crossroads to Highway 8 and the Stoney Creek-Winona axis below, and to Highway 20 and the Smithville-Hamilton corridor above.

Vinemount had its own railway station after 1896, and its own blacksmiths, general stores, creamery, and post office.

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Vinemount General Store
1940
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Vinemount General Store
17 December 2003
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Vinemount Station T.H. B. R.
1940
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Howard Martin and his daughters, Joyce (l) and Joan (r).
1940
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Vinemount's second T.H. and B Railroad station.
1970
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The Vinemount Creamery started life as a project of ED Smith and Erland Lee, with its direct connection to the Toronto Hamilton and Buffalo Railway, but the building eventually evolved into the Vinemount Woman's Institutes Hall and ultimately a private residence.

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Vinemount Creamery
1920
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Armstrong family
1894

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Vinemount Hall
1930
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Vinemount Women's Institute
26 January 1951
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Vinemount Creamery
2001
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The Vinemount School served the far east end of Saltfleet.