"The Old Stage Road"
Text from the plaque
This road, which follows in part the Indian trail, known as the "Detroit Path", across East Oxford Township, was opened by settlers at the expense of Major Thomas Ingersoll in 1796-97. It joined a wagon road opened across Burford Township by local settlers, connecting near Brant's Ford on the Grand River with a road to Long Point from Ancaster. Extended later to Delaware, it became the preferred highway to Sandwich and was used by British and American troops in 1812-14. After 1826 it became the stage route from Ancaster to London until the building of the plank road from Brantford to Woodstock in 1842-3. Sections of the road are still open between Ingersoll and Cathcart.
Transcribed from the marker, not summarised.
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The County of Oxford
The Township of South West Oxford
On Old Stage Road, just west of Road 14
3.8 km south of Towerline Road, east of Woodstock
Also recorded for this place: The County of Oxford
N 43 06.015 W 80 38.329
Recorded August 2004. Check current access before visiting.
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