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Founding of St. Marys
Photo by Alan L Brown - Posted October, 2004
Photo by contributor Wayne Adam - Posted December, 2009
Plaque Location
The County of Perth
The Town of St. Marys
On the east side of the town hall on the
northeast corner of Queen Street and Church Street
Coordinates: N 43 15.594 W 81 08.418 |
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Plaque Text
When opening Blanshard Township for settlement in 1839, the Canada Company made an arrangement with Thomas Ingersoll, a brother of Laura Secord, to build mills at "the Little Falls" of the Thames. In 1841-43 he erected a sawmill and a grist-mill and in return obtained 136 ha of land in this vicinity. The mills formed the nucleus of a settlement named St. Marys. In 1854 the community was incorporated as a village. The building of railways, 1857-60, stimulated development and in 1864, when St. Marys became a town, it was already the centre of lumber and limestone quarry industries and the adjacent prosperous agricultural region.
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Laura Secord (1775-1868)
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