Photo dated 1908

Silver Creek Farm was settled in the early 1800s and was part of a larger property owned by the Chambers family, one of the founding families in the former settlement of Silver Creek. By 1826, Timothy Chambers had built and operated the first saw mill and grist mill in the area using the formidable water power provided by Silver Creek.

The Chambers family built a log house and the large bank barn. Around 1896 the current house was built by Dr. Andrew Rose Robinson (1845-1924), a member of a prominent family from Claude, noted physician and founding member and professor of dermatology at New York Polyclinic Medical School and Hospital.

In 1895 Robinson purchased the land, built a summer home and established a trout preserve and hatchery within the former mill ponds. Dr. Robinson spent time studying and writing his texts on dermatology while at Silver Creek Farm.

Following Robinson's death in 1924, the property was bought by T.A. Schnaufer and became well known for Jersey cattle breeding until after the Second World War.

In 2015 the house and property were designated under the Heritage Act.  The designation includes the following description:

The key built heritage element of Silver Creek Farm is the late 19th century two-storey frame farmhouse with a wraparound verandah, distinctive horizontal wood siding and an overall appearance that is seen as rare and possibly unique in the Town of Caledon. The farmhouse has a stone rear portion that likely dates to the Chambers occupation of the property. A large, mature gingko tree stands on the south side of the house. The farm complex includes a large bank barn and a smaller frame stable. There are also several landscape features of note, including: a row of mature maple roadside trees along the east side of Kennedy Road; a long, curving lane; and two large ponds and one small, heart-shaped pond that evolved from millponds created in the early-19* century by the Chambers' family grist and saw mill.

Pictured above: the mature gingko shedding its leaves