1291 Children were often run over and badly in3ured by horses and sleighs, and as counrh r; people with their loads re n; rarely used sleigh bells, a law had to be passed insiSting that etery one Who'drOVe a horse and sleigh through the ToWn must have a bell'attacheda The only good prunenade in 3 those days Was the Queen9s1 Wharf, and ladies were often seen taking a co nstitutional there in the early'morning. 5 ' The Fanning garden was a lovely spot in Old Charlott Town. The whole block between Great George and Prince Street on which the first Y.M.Cer and (old) Zion Church were sub= ; sequently built, belonged to Mrs. and Miss Fanningo Their x dwelling was a tWOustory'house, with a large porch in front,g reaching to the second story. It was on the corner of Great 3 George and Sydney Street, facing on Sydney Street, and stem” in about eight or ten feet from the corner, with a low raile‘ ing around ito Shrubs and flowers were placed inside the f railingo The stable was on the corner later occupied by the Bank of NOva Scotia, and later the Dominion Bunk. Everythin about the house and grounds was beautifully kept, and the g perfume from the shrubs and fruit trees were delightful, Not any of these fine old trees are now standinge There was-3 one in.Dr. MacLeod‘s grounds until the summer of 1898, whosefi large trunk and gnarled branches showed its antiquity; but 2 it, too, is gone and there is nothing new remaining of the h lovely old gardeno The late Judge Young claimed he brought 5 the first willow trees to Charlotte Town» Be that as it may3 a large w: illow grew at the northeast corner of the Fanning 3 garden; it branched far into Richmond Street, The ground w often very wet under its That tree was the first one rsmovsfi after the garden was divided into lots; and the first house 5 built on the old garden site was erected upon that corner. 3 In the summer of 1847 the Fanning house was destroyed by fi 1 Miss Fanning with her sister mrs. Cumberland and Captain Cumberland (who lived at Warren Farm, across the Harbour) 5 left for England soon after the house was burned The steo 5 ble, in its coat of lavender paint, stood as a monument for 3 many years after. h The Fannings had land in other parts of the town; 5 they owned a large piece on the corner of Prince and Fitzroy 5 Streets, where the Baptist Church stands. They had fully quarter of that block. It was called Miss Fanning’ 3 field. Sometime in the seventies it was claimed by a descendant ofgv General Fanning's living in the United States, and was sold 5 by him. That property which is now the Kensington shooting range and Exhibition grounds, belonged to the Fannings; it 3 had in the forties, pretty groves and stumps of trees througig

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