Ontario's Provincial Plaques

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The Founding of Milverton

Photo by Alan L Brown - October 24, 2004

Plaque Location

The County of Perth
The Township of Perth East
In Milverton, on the east side of Main Street across from West Street at the south end of downtown

Plaque Text

By 1851 Andrew West, a New York native, had opened a hotel in the recently surveyed township of Mornington. This building was the focal point around which a small community initially known as West's Corners developed. The hamlet grew gradually and a post office was opened in 1854. Ten years later the settlement contained a sawmill, a tannery, two churches and some 200 residents. About 1871 the name of the village was changed to Milverton, reportedly after a town in Somerset, England. With the arrival of the Stratford and Huron Railway in 1877 the market for Milverton's agriculturally based industries was greatly expanded and the thriving community, with a population of about 550, was incorporated as a village by a county by-law effective January 1, 1881.

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