Cooper's Falls, Ontario

Cooper's Falls, Ontario

Cooper's Falls (or Coopers Falls) is a hamlet in central Ontario, on the Black River near the village of Washago in Ramara Township. It is named after Thomas Cooper, the first settler in this location. Although there are a few families living in Coopers Falls, it is considered a ghost town, because its current population is significantly less than it once was.

History

In 1864, Thomas James Cooper and his wife, Emma emigrated to Canada on the steamship "Hector" from Fawkham, England. They arrived in the area from the train in Barrie. From there they proceeded to make their way by boat to Washago. There they set off into the bush to find a location to build their home in lands occupied by wolves.[clarification needed]

Emma and Thomas Cooper built a house and general store half a mile from a waterfall on the Black River. Many years later, in 1878 the first post office opened with the name Cooper’s Falls.

The village soon added a general store, blacksmith and cheese factory. A log schoolhouse was built in 1874 followed by two churches. The Methodist church was built in 1894 and the Anglican church was built approximately 1884.

Thomas Cooper had hoped that his town's inhabitants would live good and clean lives. He believed in prohibition and thus, was not pleased when men from the lumber camps would show up in town, drunk.

The town's demise came when the lumber mill closed. The actual waterfall which took the Cooper name sits on private property, but can be seen from Cooper's Falls Road, especially in winter and early spring, when foliage doesn't obstruct the view.

Tourist attractions

The Black River Rd. just north of the village leads east into the City of Kawartha Lakes and to a well-known rapids called Victoria Falls inside the Queen Elizabeth II Wildlands Provincial Park. You will pass the spot where an old ghost town called Ragged Rapids, Ontario once existed (which had its own post office and a dance hall in the 1930s).

Externals links

Coordinates: 44°47′10″N 79°14′00″W / 44.78611°N 79.2333333°W / 44.78611; -79.2333333


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