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Fairfield on the Thames
Photo by Alan L Brown - Posted June, 2009
Photo by contributor Wayne Adam - Posted September, 2011
Plaque Location
The Municipality of Chatham-Kent
On Road 2 about 9 km east of Thamesville
Coordinates: N 42 35.156 W 81 54.225 |
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Plaque Text
Here stood the village of Fairfield, destroyed by invading American forces following the Battle of the Thames, 5th October, 1813. Its inhabitants, Delaware Indian exiles brought from Ohio to Canada in 1792 by Moravian missionaries, were re-established on the opposite bank of the river after the Peace of 1814.
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