Around Town
These are early photos of Commanda looking south toward the direction of the future Highway 522, from the top of Carr's Hill on Old Nipissing/ Rosseau Colonization Road. The village of Commanda was situated on both sides of Commanda Creek where it crosses the Old Nipissing Road. The photos show the original General Store location before it was relocated to its present site. The original settlement road to Trout Creek ran along an old Indian Trail north of present Highway 522 which became the old Barrett Settlement road.
There were many establishments in Commanda, including a hotel, coffin factory, garage, church and a school house. The General Store was later sectioned into four parts and pulled across the terrain on rollers, by horses, to its present location in 1933, and re-built. Across from the present General Store location, was the Commanda/Evers Hotel.
The Lutheran Church, built in 1883 as a Presbyterian Church, was shared between the Presbyterians and Lutherans until1926 when the Lutherans purchased the church and moved it to the lot behind the Commanda Store. The Lutheran Church operated until 2016, at which time it was decommissioned and give to the Commanda General Store Museum.