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17-553: Athens Township may refer to: Places [ edit ] Canada Athens Township, Ontario United States Athens Township, Ringgold County, Iowa Athens Township, Jewell County, Kansas Athens Township, Michigan Athens Township, Minnesota Athens Township, Athens County, Ohio Athens Township, Harrison County, Ohio Athens Township, Bradford County, Pennsylvania Athens Township, Crawford County, Pennsylvania [REDACTED] Topics referred to by

34-496: A live entertainment venue Joshua Bates Centre which features a series of live musical performances each year. Aside from Athens, the township consists of the communities of: Anoma Lea, Beales Mills, Charleston, Glen Elbe, Glen Morris, Hayes Corners, Wiltsetown. The township administrative offices are located in Athens. Beales Mills, Ontario is a small settlement located southwest of the town of Athens, close to Charleston. The community

51-560: A mural of the 1921 original school that burned, as well as students from the time period. The eyes and car in the mural seem to follow you when you walk by. Despite being a small school, it has provided its students with many opportunities to travel all over the world. In 2008, "ADHS visited Europe (France, Belgium, The Netherlands), New York, and British Columbia." The school has many clubs for students, such as work crew, global virtual classroom, formal, world issues, envirothon, tech, chess, mathematics, and yearbook. Christopher Perkins ,

68-583: A population of 3,042 living in 1,214 of its 1,325 total private dwellings, a change of 0.8% from its 2016 population of 3,018 . With a land area of 129.54 km (50.02 sq mi), it had a population density of 23.5/km (60.8/sq mi) in 2021. Population trend: Mother tongue: Athens District High School The school has a student parliament system in which it takes great pride and encourages students to be involved every year. The parliament consists of two parties, blue and gold. The school's website contains its constitution. The school

85-626: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Athens Township, Ontario Athens ( 2016 Population 3,013) is a township in the United Counties of Leeds and Grenville in Eastern Ontario , Canada. It is located approximately 25 kilometres (16 mi) north of the St. Lawrence River , near Brockville , west of Addison , and about 90 kilometres (56 mi) south west of Ottawa . Formerly, it

102-418: Is no longer is use, but maintained by its own board. This cemetery dates to around 1840. East of Athens there is a Quaker cemetery simply called Quaker Cemetery which was established in the 1830s; this cemetery is no longer in use but is maintained by the township. Most of the stones here are badly deteriorated with only two being legible. East of Athens along Highway 42 is a mass gravesite associated with

119-678: The 1900s, the settlement began to decline as the mills closed. Presently, the site of Beales Mills consists of a few residential buildings most of which are modern. The ruins of a stone mill and dam can still be seen today. The settlement is largely considered a ghost town. The township of Athens is home to several old burying grounds or cemeteries. Some of these cemeteries include: Barber Cemetery, an unregistered cemetery in Charleston called Charleston Village Cemetery, Temperance Lake Cemetery, Kincaid's Corners Cemetery, Holmes Cemetery, Lake Eloida Cemetery and an abandoned and unnamed pioneer cemetery. In

136-545: The 3rd Saturday of August annually. Another celebration that is held each year is called the "Farmersville Exhibition", and is also known as "Steam Fair." This fair celebrates the agricultural heritage of the town, and includes steam engines and antique tractors. This takes place in July. Athens has its own high school Athens District High School , which is under the Upper Canada District School Board , as well as

153-489: The House of Industry as it operated from 1895 until 1946 housing the sick, elderly or poor. The gravesite is currently marked by a large stone simply reading "Pioneers of Leeds & Grenville 1895 – 1946". The original plans for the burial site included space for over 480 individuals in specific areas of the site, however, it is unclear if these plans were ever followed. Over one hundred graves are located here, of those who lived at

170-416: The House of Industry between the aforementioned years and whose bodies remained unclaimed after death. For many years it was unclear where the graves were precisely located, as absolutely no records were kept and no grave markers were placed at the time. The mass grave became abandoned in 1946 when the House of Industry came under new management, who deemed the burial practices being used as undignified. A plot

187-474: The same term This disambiguation page lists articles about distinct geographical locations with the same name. If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Athens_Township&oldid=892089878 " Categories : Place name disambiguation pages Township name disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description

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204-465: The settlement of Wiltsetown, there is a cemetery called Wiltse Pioneer Cemetery that was established around 1795. Wiltse Pioneer Cemetery holds close to 300 interments, most of which are unmarked or marked by field stones instead of engraved tombstones. In the town of Athens, there is a Roman Catholic cemetery called St. Denis Roman Catholic Cemetery, as well as a non-denominational community cemetery. The community of Glen Elbe has its own cemetery which

221-452: Was a part of Yonge township before becoming Rear of Yonge and Escott with Athens as its own census division and finally, Athens township. The township consists of the town of Athens and a few other small communities. Formerly known as Farmersville , Benoni Wiltse, a United Empire Loyalist , and his brothers settled in the town of Athens in 1792. Farmersville was renamed to Athens in 1888 by Arza Parish in honour of Athens , Greece, because it

238-405: Was an educational centre with grammar school, a model school for teacher training, and a high school. Athens' post office was named in 1890. Currently, the town of Athens is known for a series of large outdoor murals depicting historical local life, painted on the sides of various buildings. Each year, a summer fair is held, called "Cornfest". This fair celebrates the harvest of corn and is held on

255-542: Was recognized in 2008 for its parliament system in an article in Maclean's magazine which said, "Since 1947, the school has held monthly parliamentary sessions(except during the coronavirus 19 pandemic) replete with parties and question periods. It is only an hour from Athens to Ottawa, but Athens high-schoolers don't have to go to the capital to understand our political system." The school is also well known for its mathematics program. The front of Athens District High School has

272-536: Was settled around the mid-19th century by a Benjamin Beale for whom the settlement was named. Beale established a sawmill, gristmill, and a flour mill along the creek located through the settlement, now known as Beales Creek, as well as a shingle manufacturing business. The community relied on the nearby hamlet of Charleston for most of its needs, such as a post office, however Charleston relied on Beales Mills to supply water power to most of its businesses. Eventually, around

289-468: Was then reserved in Glen Elbe cemetery for the unclaimed dead. In recent years, the long-neglected cemetery has been cleaned up and a fence was built around the stone memorial. A cooperative effort between local genealogical societies has recently discovered the approximate boundaries of the burial plot by dowsing for grave sites. In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada , Athens had

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