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Highway 400. The historic site rarely will see visitors as it is very isolated. The church and graveyard are surrounded by a fence. The church and its property are kept in preservation and are well maintained. It is impossible to see within the church as the windows and doors have been shut and locked up. The graveyard contains several tombstones, which date as early to the beginning of the settlement, however, the tombstones can sometimes be misinterpreted as they are very old. The Scotch Settlement is seen as the founding settlement of the West Gwillimbury area and South Simcoe county.
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services were held in a building on this site which was replaced by a frame church in 1827. The present structure was completed in 1869." The Auld Kirk Scotch
Settlement was the first and largest settlement in all of Simcoe County. The Sermons at the church were held in
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