MADE
IN HAMILTON
19TH CENTURY
INDUSTRIAL TRAIL
SITE
5
ARTHUR E. SNELGROVE CASKET
MANUFACTORY, c. 1850s
This
building is one of the few to survive from the era when most manufacturing in
the city was per-formed by skilled artisans inside small shops. It was built
sometime before the mid-1850s to house the carpentry shop for Arthur Snelgrove's
casket manufacturing business.
After
Snelgrove's death, the business was continued by Elizabeth Snelgrove. She was
one of the city's very few businesswomen at that time. The casket manufactory
was still a modest operation in 1871, employing two men, a boy and a girl. This
well-pre-served rubblestone building has served as a bar and restaurant in recent
years.
Bowen
Street is a short street running between Jackson and Main Streets, one block
east of John Street.
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