Environmental Parks

The Landon Bay Centre

The Landon Bay Centre is dedicated to protecting our natural environment with low impact facilities and activities. The center, located on the 1000 Islands Parkway, serves the needs of individual families, groups and special events. Facilities include;

• Gardens
  
  
• Trails
  

• Campground - 125 sites
  
  
• Rosette Pavilion
  
  
• Wheelchair garden
  
  
• Wildlife Sanctuary
  
  
• Environmental Programs
  
  
• Smithsonian Institute Forest Monitoring Station
  
  

Historical Sites

The "Old River Road" Heritage Byway and Memorial Way

Escott/Rockport Road,
The Fourth Rockport School.
A one storey, brick school house built in 1924 and closed in 1965 when many schools were consolidated.

Smith Seaman House
A simple stone "Ontario Cottage" was built in 1857 by Caleb Seaman a United Empire Loyalist from New York. One of Escott's 1870 woman weavers, Mary Andress Seaman, lived and worked in the house.

Third Rockport School
Built in 1888 is a one room school house. After a new school opened in 1926 the building was moved by horse and wagon to its present position.

Arthur Dickey House, 1885
A two-storey house built in a distinctive rural Ontario Gothic style.

Matthew Bolger House and Barn (1880)
It was farmed by the Bolger family from 1844 to the 1960's. A distinctive feature of the house is that consists of two houses joined together and both have Ontario Gothic style gables.

George Henry Andress House (1903)
Built by Enoch Burtch, this house is an excellent example of many frame homes of the era with its Ontario Vernacular Gothic farmhouse style. Most of its original features remain intact.

John Thomson House
Built from local bricks in 1865 and includes an old barn with a tin roof and six over six windows. John Thomas was listed in the 1870 census as a hunter.

Buell Cemetery
Buell Cemetery has a heritage designation located on Grenadier Island. Originally a family cemetery for the Buell family it also is the unmarked resting place of a number of old skeletons found in the area and given a Christian burial in 1977.

Richard Cook House (1865)
An early brick farm house later covered in siding. The property is still owned by the Cook family and was operated as a large farm with a dairy herd and mixed crops. Maple syrup is still boiled down every spring just as it was in the 19 th century.

Pools Resort School
It was built by Reuben Buell in 1881 and served the children from the mills and local community until 1965.

LaRue House
Built in 1800, itis the oldest house in the township. Originally a log structure, clapboard siding, a porch, chimneys, and kitchen tail were added much later. Originally built by timber baron William (Billa) LaRue, the once vast property included the earliest lumber and grist mills in the township.

LaRue Cemetery
iSituated on the parkway by the eastern entry to the Old River Road and is designated as the oldest cemetery in the township. It is the resting place of the Loyalist timber merchant and mill owner Billa LaRue and members of his family. The oldest grave is of his son Joseph who died in 1804 at the age of six.