Welcome to the P.T. Barnum billboard website

I'm David Sheridan, an art teacher at Thousand Islands Secondary School, in Brockville, Ontario, Canada. In the summer of 1989 my wife and I discovered a P.T. Barnum Billboard buried in the walls of our home during an extensive renovation. This multicolored bill stand stretches over sixty feet long by about eleven feet high, and includes various individual pictures of this great touring circus show. It advertised Friday, June 1st ,1877, as the day the circus would arrive. Shortly after this date, the circus left leaving this immense bill stand to be used as building material for a new summer kitchen at a home on 100 King St. E. With the help of circus historians Fred Phenning III, Fred Dahlinger Jr. , Robert L. Parkinson, Dean Jensen and collector Ken Hark the answers to some of the intriguing questions surrounding this incredible find were brought to light. With their help this huge multicolored wood-block print is now recognized as the oldest P.T. Barnum poster in the world!. With the help of my amazing art students I have been able to piece most of this behemoth back together for your enjoyment.

Come in and explore the mystery behind the walls of Brockville.........................