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Greenwood House1965
Highway #8
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Pine Villa Nursing Home1967
Highway #8
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Another prominent local family was the Dewitt family, for which the road was named.Interestingly, the road which rises up the plateau and joins Ridge Road at the top was originally named Lee Mountain Road for the family at the TOP of the cliff.
Some time after 1960, the name attached to the road from the lake (Dewitt) was applied to the plateau extension and the name "Lee" disappeared.
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Dewitt Road and the Lounsbury farm, seen from top of escarpment1930
Fruitland, Dewitt Road
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Charles Dewitt house1975
Highway #8
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Fruitland's most famous son in the 19th and early 20th centuries was Franklin M. Carpenter.The Carpenter name was well known in Saltfleet, with at least 3 main branches of the family.
F.M. Carpenter was Fruitland's most prominent politician and one of its wealthiest fruit farmers.
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Franklin M. Carpenter1890
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F.M Carpenter Home.1900
Barton Street
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4th Fruitland Public School (SS 2)1973
Barton Street
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One of R.H. Dewar's neighbours in the late 1800s was W.M. Orr, whose grand brick house is one of the few surviving buildings in Fruitland.Although Orr was a relative newcomer to Saltfleet, he was married into to one of the old families of Fruitland, the Biggars, whose house once stood on the NE corner of Highway 8 and Dewitt Road.
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William Matthew Orr (W.M).1880
Fruitland, Highway #8
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W.M Orr House4 July 2003
Highway #8
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J.W. Orr. farm1890
Highway #8
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W.M. Orr's son, J.E. Orr, has been well documented by the family.Following are a series of pictures of J.E. Orr and his family farm.
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