A quiet rural road running through flat West Lincoln farmland, with a weathered wooden barn, round hay bales, and distant wind turbines under a clear sky — typical countryside of the Niagara-region township that surrounds the hamlet of St. Anns.

St. Anns

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St. Anns is a historic hamlet in West Lincoln strung along Twenty Mile Creek Road, whose roots reach back to the earliest Loyalist and Pennsylvania-German settlement of the area in the 1790s. Its focal point is St. Ann's Community Church, successor to a congregation whose first church was raised in 1799, beside a pioneer cemetery bearing monuments from the late 1700s. Now a quiet farming community, it retains a strong sense of place around its church and heritage. The hamlet lies close to neighbouring Bismarck and the Smithville area.

Known for

  • St. Ann's Community Church
  • Pioneer cemetery with 1790s monuments
  • Early Loyalist and Mennonite Brethren heritage
  • Twenty Mile Creek
  • Rural farming hamlet

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