Fairy Lake is located in Acton, adjacent to Prospect Park and Rotary Park and also has residential properties surrounding it. The lake is also adjacent to rural lands, a campground/trailer park, and natural open space lands. Fairy Lake is located at the headwaters of Black Creek.
Prospect Park is an approximately 25-acre parkland complex within the community of Acton in the Town of Halton Hills, located southwest of Acton’s Main Street. The park is situated on a 14-acre peninsula that extends into the approximately 69-acre Fairy Lake. Surrounding the park to the northeast, east, and southeast are late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries residential subdivisions. Prospect Park shares the peninsula with Park Avenue and Lake Avenue. Vehicular access to the property is available through a central entrance from Knox Street and Park Avenue. Pedestrians can enter through the main entrance at Knox Street and Park Avenue, as well as via footpaths from Main Street and Elizabeth Drive.
Prospect Park features a variety of recreational and community facilities including a half-mile graveled running track, three baseball diamonds, a tennis court, an indoor soccer arena, a swimming beach, a children’s playground, a splash-pad, a boathouse, and a dock with a canoe launch. The property also features several mature deciduous trees.
Prospect Park also currently features bleachers, a covered bandstand, a covered pavilion, picnic tables, benches, and public washrooms. It also hosts several structures used for the annual Acton Fall Fair and Agricultural Society, such as the Thompson Agricultural Drill Shed (previously the Acton Drill Shed), the ticket booth (the old Bandstand) and cattle rails. Several accessory/utility buildings are also present on the property.
The subject property contains several individual historic features, including the original 1926 bandstand, the entrance pillars, the Acton Drill Shed, and the Prospect Park Pioneer Cemetery. Figure 4 notes the location of the key historic and present features of Prospect Park.
