On this walk we pass by Lombard Road. Here is some information about it.
In 1863, Helgesen purchased Section 5 which consisted of 180 acres.
This land stretched from the ocean foreshore up to about Tavane Road I
believe. The original small home was built just east of William Head
Road and south of the Creek. They built a large home on the hillside
overlooking the straits in 1879 and Lombard Road was their driveway so
somewhere at the crest of the hill, their large home sat. It burnt down
in 1933. I believe it was either to the right or left of Lombard where
currently sit two houses that were owned by the same family when we
moved here. When Rocky Point Road was built in 1873, the Helgesen's
acquired a strip of land to access that road and thus extended the
ownership from the sea to Rocky Point (albeit this would have been
termed a right of way that ran from their property line to the new road
in today's terminology). They built a cottage for a sick relative
between Tavane Road and the railroad (now the Galloping Goose). Isabel
Tipton who is a descendant of the Helgesen's tells me it was on our
land.
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