Henry Farm
In 1898, Henry bought the farm house and property where he would spend almost all of his adult life, after he graduated from the Ontario Agricultural college, and once again brought the property back into his family's ownership. The "Mulholland Homestead", was an area originally settled by his great-grandfather Henry Mulholland, but he sold it in the early 19th century.
The farm was located in what was then known as Todmorden, and contained 460 acres. He sold it in 1958 for approximately $2,000,000 CDN, to a British construction firm, that was planning on building a housing division. He died ten-days after completing the sale, on September 2, 1958. It became a suburban housing subdivision in the 1960s, named "Henry Farm" in what was then known as the City of North York, now part of the amalgamated City of Toronto.
A public high school was named after him, George S. Henry Academy and is located near his former homestead.
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