Location
The County of Lennox and Addington - Greater Napanee
At Adolphustown, in a parking lot at the west end of a park on the south side of Highway 33 just west of County Road 8 at street number 10482
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Photographer
Alan L Brown
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More Information
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Posted
May 28, 2004
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Text from the Plaque
On June 16, 1784, a party of some 250 United Empire Loyalists landed from bateaux near this site and established the first permanent white settlement in Adolphustown Township. They had sailed from New York in the fall of 1783 under the leadership of Major Peter Van Alstine (1747-1811), a Loyalist of Dutch ancestry, and passed the winter at Sorel. Van Alstine was later appointed a justice of the peace, represented this area in the first Legislative Assembly of Upper Canada and built at Glenora the earliest grist-mill in Prince Edward County.
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