The Village of Newcastle
Welcome to the Village of Newcastle, incorporated in 1856, it celebrated its Sesquicentennial in 2006. Above is the Community Hall in the middle of the village on Kingston Road, or #2 hwy facing east.
We hope you will enjoy our pictorial tour through the village with some of its quaint shops, cozy cottages and elegant older homes. A curious mixture of the old and the new, the Village of Newcastle is steeped in history and the entrepreneurial endeavours of first settlers from Europe, Ireland and United Empire Loyalists, looking for a new beginning along the shores of Lake Ontario. These days new families are again starting anew in a just being built subdivision by the lake.
A sleepy little place for so long, on this year's visit back to my ancestral home, I found a great deal of building going on! A walk down Mill Street was the same as ever bringing back hazy, yet comforting memories of childhood, interrupted only by the noise generated by the greater level of traffic caused by some construction on hwy 2. Families out for a walk. Some young people stopped me asking to have their picture taken, saying "We love Newcastle". I couldn't help but wonder what my great grandparents would have said about the sign, "No Skateboarding" ? They would surely wonder what that was. But women still sit in the coffee shop visiting and comparing lives, men go to the barber and brickwork still needs repairing, just the same as years gone by.
So take a tour through the Village of Newcastle one day soon. Walk down the street and hear the birds chirping away in the trees, have some refreshment at Massey House Restaurant, buy some flowers or shop awhile in the Village Cards & Gifts Shop with its 'Seeds of Promise' or David Alexander's and listen for a sort of old fashioned whisper of days gone by.
Of charm and peacefulness, of family and warmth, that only a village can offer.
