The Lost Hamlet of Woodlands?

Woodlands is one of the small, forgotten settlements among the Lost Villages of the St. Lawrence Seaway. 

After more than six decades spent underwater, these Lost Villages have become "The Atlantis of Ontario".

Located just south of modern day Ingleside, the farming community of Woodlands was also a summer tourist destination.

The name carries on today with the Woodlands Campsite.








The original settlement known as "Woodlands" is now submerged, somewhere along the Old Highway #2 (also underwater).

But where exactly is this long lost hamlet?

The maps provide a generally vague direction, and each map shows a slightly different location. The tiny hamlet of Woodlands almost gets forgotten behind the larger nearby Lost Villages of Aultsville and Farran's Point.

While small in population, Woodlands may have stretched further than one might imagine... Farms generally being further apart than residential dwellings, Woodlands could have stretched all the way to just south of modern Farran Park Campground.




A number of shoals exist in this section of river - Directly south of Ingleside, right along the Old Highway #2.

Huge piles of rocks... Or foundations???




















In the series of shoal markers from Long Sault to Ingleside, this one bears number 17.

(Southeast of Farran Park Campground, Southwest of McLaren Campground)

Zooming in with Google Maps, the eerie shapes begin to appear...
Stones arranged in shapes that can only be man-made.

Squares and rectangles beneath the waves - Buildings of two farm properties, side by side?

Looking southeast at these rocky shoals from the small unnamed island south of Farran Park Campground.
(the island bears the orange shoal marker number 19)

This tiny island is technically on the same "shelf" as Bredin Island - Is it possible that Woodlands extended this far?
















Bredin Island on the left, Croil Island on the right.

Woodlands, under the water somewhere.
























Extreme zoom, looking southeast (from the tiny unamed island south of Farran Campground).



























Down from the current (looking north from the tiny island south of Farran's Park) is a huge sand bar, with history potentially burried beneath it.

A small square and rectangle have caught my attention on Google Maps.

With a collection of big rocks lined up together, I believe that yet another farmhouse and barn were located just off the southeastern tip of this unnamed island.












I have also heard of a Woodlands church foundation that's above water - although I'm unsure of the location. Someone may have simply confused it with the church foundation on Wales Island.

Apparently there were two churches in Woodlands, at least one of them located by the cemetery along the Old Highway #2.



As for "downtown" Woodlands (presumably further east) - That particular stretch of Old Highway #2 appears to be in remarkably good condition. Following the highway on Google Maps, one can make out tiny foundations that dot the line, pretty much all the way to the next sunken hamlet (Santa Cruz).

On a calmer (and warmer) day, I'd be interested in checking it out to see what else is down there...