 A post-office south of Painted Post Drive (formerly Danforth's Road) and Markham Road, and a schoolhouse on Ellesmere Road west of The Markham Road, today the site of Woburn Collegiate Institute, were important sites in the early community.The intersection of Painted Post and Markham Road was also the site of the Woburn Hotel, and across the road was the Woburn Hall.The Woburn Hotel housed the meetings of the first Scarborough Council from 1850 until 1922.