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Inscription on wall of Terry House, dated 1850, photo 1965
1850
Todmorden, Ontario

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The Terry House

The Regency-style cottage that is located at Todmorden Mills Museum is named after Parshall Terry, one of the earliest residents of the area. Terry was married to Rhoda Skinner whose brothers Isaiah and Aaron founded the first mills on the Don River in the 1790s.

Although recent research indicates that the cottage was built well after Terry's death in 1808, it is possible that at least part of the current structure stands on the site of his original home.

Little is known about the nineteenth-century inhabitants of the cottage. An inscription on the stone wall of the cottage basement is dated 1850 and shows the initials TLH and ELM inside two hearts. It is thought they are the initials of Thomas Lord Helliwell and Eliza Ann Morse.

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Terry House
1940
Todmorden, Ontario

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Residents of Todmorden recalled that the Goldsmith family lived in the Terry House during the early part of the twentieth century.

Other Todmorden residents recalled that as late as the 1940s the central hall of the cottage was dominated by a large stove that provided heating for the house.

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In 1965, the Terry House was expropriated to form part of the Todmorden Mills Museum.