WARD, Increase
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Three Mile House (1857)
The Inn was located on the Bedford Road, today known as the Bedford Highway near the Fairview Underpass. It was described as a livery and tavern, a resting place for travelers. Their horses and carriages were housed in the stables. Isaiah Shaw built the first inn on the site about 1822, calling it at first the Bedford Inn. It was described as a rather large house that held twenty-two rooms. He also built a huge stable which could hold sixty horses and tons of hay. John Northup was the proprietor from 1828 until a man with an unusual name of Increase Ward replaced him in 1830. The inn was consumed by fire in October 1857 and a new two and a half storey high Three Mile House was built on the site soon after. Thomas Ward, son of Increase Ward became the proprietor until his death in 1887. After his death his family kept the inn in business for five years, until Thomas`s daughter married John F. Gough and he took over the inn. He added the western two storeys, flat roofed 20 ft. addition. He was the owner until the railway department took over his property in 1914 and the building was demolished in 1918 to make for the new Fairview Train Station.
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