Top 3 Abandoned Places In Tweed

There are so many abandoned places in Tweed! This is a list of the top three abandoned places in Tweed. Browse through all abandoned places in Tweed

1. Marlbank Ghost Town

nfo: Marlbank was originally called Allen's Mills after Dr. James Allen, the first settler. He was a graduate of Edinburgh University who came to Canada shortly after graduation and settled in Conway, Ontario about 1839.

As the soil at Allen's Mills was ideal for the making of cement, the English Portland Cement Company built a plant in Marlbank, Ontario in 1891. This site was later purchased by the Beaver Portland Cement Company in 1898.

The operations produced portland cement, which is a fine grey powdered cement consisting of limestone, clay and sand which has been heated to 1500 degrees Celcius. The cement plant employed around two hundred men at its peak. They were paid one dollar a day for a ten-hour day or ten cents per hour. There were forty residences and a boarding house that slept one hundred men. These houses occupied the now empty fields opposite the factory. Many of the boarders and workers were of French or Hungarian nationality.

The newly formed Canadian Portland Cement Company Limited took over the plant owned by the Beaver Portland Cement Company at Marlbank (taken over by Canada Cement Company Limited in 1909 and closed in 1914).

2. Queensborough

This was once a very quaint village. It still is, but the old hotel is really looking weathered these days and certainly could use a facelift before its too late. People still live in it so stay out. They do use its backlot for parking.

"First settled in the 1830s and called Cooksookie. Named in 1854 after Queensborough on the River Boyne. Also Queensboro."

The sidewalks are in need of some sweeping and weeding. With a bit of tender loving care this village could be a toursim draw one day, due to its excellent river location and picturesque village street layout.

Municipality of Tweed and Town of Madoc- get it in gear!!! You both have a gem within your midst.

• This village sits right on the boundary between both municipalities.

3. Graveyard of Cars

Not sure anything about this maybe a business? But this person has Miles of land full of old/destroyed cars wasn't able to talk to them about it but would've loved to ask to look around. But from what I could see was a lot of cool vehicles