But to the south beneath the high lake bank is a most charming picture. In the foreground is Turkey Point, (named it is said because of the vast number of turkeys and other wild fowl) a large part of which is marsh, with its summer cottages. Then may be discerned Long Point Bay and in the blue distance is the peninsula of Long Point. Not always, however, a peninsula as it was for many years an island. It is said that at one time the intention was to make Turkey Point a township. This was never done and with the passing of the old village of Charlotteville and Fort Norfolk, its importance waned. However today in the summer time there are many people living here

The name of Long Point explains itself. It is only necessary to look at a map and the long finger of upland and marsh. It forms a part of the township of South Walsingham. Ryerson's Island, alongside at the north, was granted to Joseph Ryerson on the 31st of March 1808.

WHITE FISH BAR

There is a bit of land in the Inner Long Point Bay, about three-quarters of a mile from the Turkey Point Marsh. Perhaps it should be given the term of "Island," but it is known as White Fish Bar. I think there is not much dry land about it and its probable use is as a breeding place and home for wild ducks and other wild life. A great deal depends upon the high water mark of the Lake. A lot of marsh has been swept away during the past one hundred years. Thomas W. Walsh the old surveyor told me that when his people came to Norfolk, there was but little open water between Long Point and Turkey Point. So this bar is perhaps all that is left of many hundreds, even thousands, of acres of marsh of the long ago.

LYNEDOCH

Lynedoch is another spot in our county that has had a dual name, On the 28th of October 1853, Patrick McMaster deeded a piece of land m the village of Falkirk to Similda Mandeville.� �Falkirk!� And at once Bonnie Scotland comes to mind, as Falkirk is a town in Stirlingshire. I do not find any other reference to this name in our office. Next comes the name of Lynedoch. Thomas Graham, Baron Lynedoch, was a distinguished military leader under Wellington and his title is remembered in the pretty village in northern Charlotteville.

JERICHO

Jericho was named for a Methodist church of that name which stood on the northwest corner of lot one, concession five, Charlotteville, four and a half miles west of Walsh. There is nothing left but a cemetery�and memories.

SILVER HILL

Silver Hill, if the story I have been told is true, is from a vagary of imagination on the part of someone in the vicinity. It was fancied that silver was to be found there, and a search actually took place on Lot Two, Concession Seven on the farm known as the old Halliday place. The streamlet which crosses the townline between Charlotteville and North Walsingham is Silver Creek, and the post office nearby was called Silver Hill, but all that is to be found of the white metal is merely nomenclature. Anyone familiar with geology would not have made the mistake. At any rate there is a Silverhill in Donegal County, Ireland, and a parochial district of the same name near St. Leonard's in Sussex, England.

HEMLOCK

Hemlock, in the extreme southwest corner of the county was the most distant post office in that direction that we ever had after the formation of the present Norfolk. It borrowed its name from Hemlock Creek, which was doubtless so called from the growth of hemlock timber alongside the creek. Years before it was called Hemlock, it was known as Prince William.

KINGLAKE

Kinglake is another Houghton name. I always thought that it was called for Kinglake, the historian of the Crimean war, but a lady who has a good chance to know what she is talking about, says "no." There was a man named King who lived there, so she tells me, alongside an artificial pond or lake of great beauty, and hence the name came into being,

Frogmore at once takes us across the ocean to the Frogmore near Windsor, so dear to the late Queen Victoria, and where she and other members of her family lie buried.

Fair Ground was so called because it was the place where the agricultural shows in Houghton were held. There is situated the town hall and there the Township Council holds its meetings.

Houghton is derived from the name of the township and was once called Houghton Centre although it is quite a way from the middle of the township.

Clear Creek is a beautiful stream of water emptying into Lake Erie where the Misener Mills stood, hence the name of the post office.

There was once a prominent family named Jackson living between Houghton and Clear Creek. The late Sheriff Jackson sprang from that family. Jacksonburg traces its name to the Jacksons, although the hamlet was never granted a post office.

HOUGHTON SANDHILLS

The Houghton Sandhills is a familiar name to all. The Sandhills skirt the lakeshore southerly of Houghton. Nature does a great many peculiar things when she feels in the mood, and right here she has gotten in some of her most remarkable work. There is sand in various places along the lakeshore and it is a remarkable thing that this is the only place where such mountains of it have been piled up. The highest point is about 240 feet above the lake level and the whole mass is perpetually changing and is gradually moving towards the east, manifesting that it is the strong southwest wind that has wrought this wonderful affair. But, why, we wonder, in this particular spot? There have been traces found of Indian settlements here, and no doubt the old chiefs often viewed the countryside from the eminence of this work of nature.

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