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Originally Posted by ohhimark
I wondered if they were going to keep the tower after they started building houses around it. Was that area all previously the Nash farm?
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Did the Nash family have land above the escarpment too? There used to be a narrow road just west of Centennial that went up the escarpment -- very steep, but from what I recall it was paved (and I think it was very broken pavement at the time I "discovered it" on my bike as a teenager in the early/mid 1980s). I remember wondering if it was a private road because I could not remember reading historical notes about a mountain access in that area; your question about Nash farmland up there made me wonder if that road was theirs.
I think this is it, connected between Centennial partway up the grade and where Glover Mountain Rd. becomes a private drive. I may have followed a trail eastward off the Greenhill reservoir that led there.
Satellite:
https://goo.gl/maps/2Mv57CmDzmCaHB6t8
Streetviews from bottom and top:
https://goo.gl/maps/BP293E1X1p3YyK6K8
https://goo.gl/maps/mSqCekXKALU9SKjp9
Further edit: The neighbourhood blocks west of Upper Centennial, between the escarpment and Mud St., are named "Nash North" and "Nash South"
https://map.hamilton.ca/Static/PDFs/...LL%20Named.pdf