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Also known as the Rowley House, the Morrow House was purchased from Elsie Roadhouse of Little Current for $100.00 on December 18, 1972.George Bishop called this building a "beautiful example of broad axe work of early settlers". 28-foot timbers from a barn at Ten Mile Point, donated by Eldridge Myers, were used as the base logs in the reconstruction of this house.
The Morrow House is now approximately 136 years old. A two story house with dimensions 30 x 20, it has a large bedroom upstairs, two bedrooms, a combined kitchen and parlor downstairs.
It was also reconstructed under the Federal Local Initiatives Program at a cost of $21,294.00 including wages for 7 people.
This house was built by George Rowley and his wife Elizabeth 'Bessie' Clark.
Bessie Clark was born in England in 1926. She died in Howland Township in 1904. George was born about 1820, also in England. They came to Canada and lived in Bolton, Ontario for a time. They moved to the Manitoulin Island about 1869 and settled in the Green Bush Area.
About 1891, the Rowley's daughter, Martha (Rowley) Ramus and her three children moved to the Manitoulin Island. In 1891, Martha Ramus is reported to be working as a cook in a Little Current Hotel and living with a man named Joseph Moreau. By 1901, Martha and Joseph, and Martha's daughter, Olive May, born in 1893, were living with Martha's mother, Bessie Rowley, in this house.
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The Morrow family remained in the house until about 1918. During that time, Mary (Collins) Lee, who boarded here in 1916, said that Mr. Moreau was a French Canadian, who could step dance with a drink of water on his head!Martha's daughter May, had two children. Her son, Andy and her daughter, Florence, were both born in this house. Florence, now Florence Hagen, lives in Mindemoya and on one occasion thrilled school children visiting the museum with her memories of living in the house.
Both Martha and Joseph are buried at Mountain View Cemetery, as Joseph and Martha Morrow.
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George Bishop's first look at his next project: the Morrow Homestead18 December 1972
Green Bush, off Highway 6, Manitoulin Island, Ontario, Canada
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This is what the Morrow Homestead looked like when George Bishop first saw it in December of 19725
George Rowley, who built the Rowley Morrow Homestead in the Green Bush area in 1869 or 18701880
10862 Highway 6, Sheguiandah, Ontario, Canada
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George Rowley and his wife Bessie Clark Rowley were both born in England. They are believed to have built this house in 1869/707
Elizabeth (Bessie) Clark Rowley1880
10862 Highway 6, Sheguiandah, Ontario, Canada
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Martha Rowley1900
10862 Highway 6, Sheguiandah, Ontario, Canada
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Olive May Ramus Morrow1910
10862 Highway 6, Sheguiandah, Ontario, Canada
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May Morrow was the daughter of Martha (Rowley) Ramus Morrow and lived in this house with her two children, Florence and Andy.11
The agreement with Elsie Roadhouse18 December 1972
10862 Highway 6, Sheguiandah, Ontario, Canada
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The agreement with Elsie Roadhouse, who owned the Morrow Homestead and George Bishop, who purchased it for the Little Current Howland Centennial Museum's expansion project.13
The Morrow Homestead under reconstruction1973
Highway 6, Sheguiandah, Ontario, Canada
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The new plate logs for the Morrow Homestead were donated by Eldridge Myers from his farm on Ten Mile Point |
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