Place:Brown's Corners United Church Cemetery, York Region, Ontario, Canada

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Brown's Corners is an unincorporated community in Markham, Regional Municipality of York in the Greater Toronto Area of Ontario, Canada and located near the corner of Woodbine Avenue and Highway 7.^[1] The community, founded in 1842, was named for local settler Alexander Brown, Sr. (1771–1851) who acquired in 1838. Beaver Creek flows through it.

The community is mixed into another unincorporated community of Buttonville, Ontario.

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The area once was once farm land and has given way to commercial development. Outlet malls are now found near the former community. All that remains of the old settlement is the Brown's Corner United Church with the small cemetery and Alexander Brown House (built in 1858 by Brown's son) at 8980 Woodbine Avenue.

A list of business located in the area and on the former Brown's farm:

• Hyundai Canada
• Oracle Canada ULC (formerly Sun Microsystems)
• Michael Angelo's - located at the former Knob Hill Farms Markham Food Terminal
• Seneca College - formerly Allstate Insurance
• Toronto/Buttonville Municipal Airport

Resources

• Find A Grave: Browns Corners United Church Cemetery Partial Listing.

• Historic Cemeteries of South York Region - Brown's Corners United Church Cemetery Partial listing.

• Canadian GenWeb Cemetery Project - Ontario - Brown's Corners United Church Cemetery Comprehensive listing of all visible headstones at the time of the cemetery survey.