Cemetery Rd. is official

It’s official. The road which runs alongside the Castleton Cemetery is now called Cemetery Rd. The road has been on official township maps as far back as 1879 but was not assigned a name until August 11, 2009

Nobody is sure how it happened but the road which has run along the side of the Castleton Cemetery for at least 130 years had no name.

In her report to Cramahe Township Council on August 11, Chief Building Official Natalie Moroz-Cornell referred to Bylaw 334 passed in 1879 which opened the road. It has been in use ever since and maintained by the Castleton Cemetery Board.

Somehow it was left off when the township did its mapping of roads, despite the fact it is an open road and services the Castleton Sports Club Fields.

The staffer suggested in August that it was time for council to correct the omission and proposed the road be named Cemetery Rd.

Roseanne Quinn is the Vice-Chair of the Castleton Cemetery Board, and, by chance, was at the August meeting. She assured council the board would be happy to hear the news when it meets next in April, 2010. She felt they would be pleased with the name.

The cemetery has been in use since the 1850’s and possibly earlier. It is not known exactly when the road came into use to service the west side of the cemetery but the road is not in the 1873 atlas which contains a map of the township. There is no known written record which gives the name of the road.

The road is used regularly by participants on their way to the Castleton Sports Club fields and will be used by buses as they approach the new school being built in Castleton.