Godfrey is a small community located about 40 minutes' drive time north of Kingston, Ontario, Canada on Hwy.
[1] It is named for Chester H. Godfrey, one of the original settlers, who donated land on which the village was built.
The place currently known as Godfrey was founded as "Deniston" on 10 October 1854, based on the placement of a post office by the same name.
Warren Godfrey Land Patent[9] Warren Godfrey was also the construction supervisor of 41 miles of the Frontenac Road in Hinchenbrooke Township, northward through Olden and Clarendon Townships to the intersection of the Mississippi Road.
When Richard died, Joe assumed ownership of the store and took the position of postmaster.
The Kingston and Pembroke Railway established the Bedford Station in Godfrey, opening in 1875.
[2] As mentioned above, ore deposits were known to the residents of Godfrey for some time before the K&P railway opened up the area to larger scale mining.
In that timeframe, 12,000 tons of iron ore were extracted, hauled to Bedford Station either by wagon or sleigh and shipped to Elmira, New York.
[18] The mine was also known as the Desert Lake or Hoppins Property, as Richardson leased the land from owner, A.
[20] This was evidently made possible by the accessibility of ore in the mine, as reported in 1903, "feldspar covers the floor of this whole mine-area, practically all of it clean and pure".
Descriptively, it was reported to be "rich, light-red [in] colour, remarkably well formed, with well developed cleavage, lustrous, translucent and pronounced to be microline".
The mine remained idle until 1928 when it was leased to the Genesse Feldspar Company of Rochester, New York, and operated until 1931.
The mica was recorded as having been mined on the property of Chester Godfrey, with eight prospect pits, averaging 14 feet in depth and providing a 60-ton output in 1891.
[25] In 1840, a one-room log school house was opened to teach the children in new community of Deniston.
[27] The residents of Hinchinbrooke had been trying throughout the mid-1800s to improve their educational potential given their meager resources, as evidenced in 1860, when superintendent of schools, Thomas R. Dupuis, esq, commented in his annual report: "This is a back Township, and very poor, and the schools are proportionally small and badly provided with teachers and means of teaching.
The groundwork for this legislation was laid by Egerton Ryerson in his Circular to the County Municipalities, in 1846.
Local Postal Code is K0H 1T0 and the Godfrey Canada Post location is 8109 County Road 38.