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The Ashbridge Estate is an historic home in the east end of Toronto. The building is located on Queen Street East near Coxwell Avenue in the Ashbridge's neighbourhood, Toronto between Leslieville and The Beaches. It is the earliest known site of residential inhabitation in the east Toronto area. ==History== The Ashbridge family were Quakers who had emigrated from England to Pennsylvania before the American Revolutionary War. Sarah came with her sons John and Jonathan and three daughters to York in 1794 fleeing religious and political persecution; she was a widow, her husband having died in Pennsylvania. As United Empire Loyalists, they were granted some of land east of the Don River in 1796, stretching from Lake Ontario to Danforth Avenue. After clearing the land and constructing log cabins, it became a profitable farm. The current building was constructed in 1854 and its roof was replaced in 1899. As the city of Toronto expanded eastward and encroached on the estate, the Ashbridges sold off much of their land. The Duke of Connaught Public School (1912) and S.H. Armstrong Community Recreation Centre were built on land that had been the Ashbridge's orchard. Woodfield Road, on the east side of the current property, was originally the farm lane going to the fields farther north. By the 1920s the property owned by the family had shrunk to the that now make up the estate. It was donated to the Ontario Heritage Trust by the family in 1972, but the last member of the family continued living there until 1997. The Ashbridges are the only family in the history of Toronto to have retained the same property for more than 200 years. A number of localities in the area are named after the Ashbridges. Just to the south of the house is Jonathan Ashbridge Park, while slightly to the east is Sarah Ashbridge Avenue. The bay that marked the southern edge of the property is now known as Ashbridge's Bay. On the east and north sides of the bay is the large Ashbridge's Bay Park. Ashbridge's Bay Park North, to the north of the bay, is the site of the Ashbridge's Bay Skate Park, opened in 2009. The west side of the bay is the location of the Ashbridges Bay Wastewater Treatment Plant, Toronto's main sewage treatment plant. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Ashbridge Estate」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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