Fairfield on the Thames / The Fairfield Mission

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

First 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.

Second Plaque Text

On this spot, David Zeisberger, missionary of the Unity of Brethren, commonly called the Moravian Church, first preached the Gospel of Christ on 8th May, 1792. This mission to the Indians, interrupted by the War of 1812, was resumed, after peace was signed, at New Fairfield across the river, and carried on by the Moravians until 1903, by the Methodist Church of Canada 1903 to 1925, and since then by the United Church of Canada.
This historic site was given to the United Church of Canada in loving memory of Neil A. McGeachy and Agnes E. McGeachy by their son William A. McGeachy.

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