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OLD HAGAR HOUSE BURNED
Building was Owned by the Government and Was Worth $5,000
The fine old country home, known as the Hagar place, on the Island, south of Welland, was destroyed by fire about 2 o’clock on Sunday morning.
The cause of the fire is unknown, but it is presumed some boys or men had been in the house in the evening and had lighted a fire in one of the fireplaces.
The house was built over a half a century ago by the late Jonathan Hagar and it had many of the characteristics of the houses of the time-large and roomy and so well built as to stand as strong and true at the end of fifty years as at the beginning.
The house is owned by the Dominion government and for some years has been vacant.
Five thousand dollars would not replace it.
Welland Telegraph
12 February 1918
Fire: 10 February 1918
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