Located on Walker Road, just north of Tecumseh Rd., was one of the last traces of the old Walker Road. This old Farmhouse dated to the 1880, and was the residence of the manager of the Walker Farms. A brief history of the Farm can be found here.
A drive by on Friday afternoon, showed the site scraped clean.
The old Victorian farmhouse had been vacant since the last tennant moved out in 1998. The new owners CBS outdoors recently accquired the building along with its neighbour to the south the Teron building, and weren’t keen on the liability of the rodent infested building.
The building on the Windsor Heritage Property Inventory List, a sad loss as more of our history is again tossed aside.
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If this was the Walker Farms manager's house, he lived a long way from the farms. They were located on 3rd Concession, Sandwich East, now the lcation of EC Row. It was called Walker's Circle. Huge barns, brahma bulls, etc. Anybody have pictures of that?
Shirley, that was the Walker Farms too. Back when this house was built c. 1890, the farms were at Walker & Tecumseh out to where the Airport is today.
HOW SAD! that is great history ruined by dumb people :'-( whats theyre problem???
Wow, what a loss. I wish they could've at least moved it somewhere!
Lived on Walker Farms in the 60's, having a reunion on November 17, 2012 at Dominion Golf Course. Bring Pictures