Late Victorian buildings at 589 Main Street. The site of
Smeltzer's Concrete works. John Mader may have been a partner in
this business or purchased it sometime after 1914. Now housing
the Amos Pewter works one of these buildings once housed the forge used
in creating casts for setting up the concrete. The firm made tombstones,
well liners, chimney sections,birdbaths and all sorts of garden
decorations. Some of these can still be seen in various locations
around town.
"If something could be made of concrete, the plant could make it."
As this business declined some of the forms are known to have been sold and the remaining stock removed to New Germany.
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Late Victorian at 595 Main
Street. This property and that at left were said to have been rented to
members of the Smeltzer family. This residence was said to have been
shared in 1914 with their landlord John Mader,
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| 590 Main Street. The home of "paid"
Magistrate Francis Holloway, whose office was here as well. Inspector
for the Municipality of Lunenburg, he had the unenviable task of
enforcing the Temperance Act, which some of his neighbours subverted
building much grander homes with their illegal profits.
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