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John Hammersley House - Digital Archive
The Digital Archive and complementary Interactive Heritage Register Map are initiatives to provide historical information regarding properties included on the Township’s Heritage Register. The Digital Archive only includes properties which have consented to include their heritage property on this archive.
The lands we know today as the Township of Puslinch have been home to
Indigenous peoples since time immemorial. We acknowledge that we are on the
traditional territory of the Hatiwendaronk, as well as the treaty lands and traditional
territory of the Anishinaabe and Haudenosaunee.
With increasing encroachment by non-Indigenous settlers in the Township of Puslinch, the Anishinaabe and Haudenosaunee could not continue their traditional lifestyle and settled in their villages along the Credit River and in the Grand River Valley. These Indigenous nations uphold their Treaty Rights within our jurisdiction.
Today, the Township of Puslinch remains home to Indigenous peoples from across Turtle Island. We are grateful to have the opportunity to share and respect Mother Earth and are committed to building constructive and cooperative relationships with Indigenous nations.
John Hammersley House
Biographical Info
The John Hammersley House was built around 1859 with granite and limestone trim. The one-and-a-half storey Ontario House style residence has a central gable and is double walled. Other notable details include the fanned lintel stones over the gable window and the delicate bargeboard on the front façade. In 1980, a stone addition was built where the original summer kitchen once stood.
John Hammersley had come from England in 1831. Hammersley acted as the first Treasurer and the first Clerk of the Division Court in Puslinch, and was Captain in the militia in the Mackenzie Rebellion (1837-1838). Hammersley received the deed to Lot 19 in 1838. This residence was one of the earliest stone houses to be built along the old Brock Road.
The property is historically associated with municipal development and military activities in early Puslinch.
Categories: Decade Built – 1850s, Decade Plaqued – 2000s, Historical Association – English/England, Materials – Stone, One-and-a-half storeys, Ontario House Style