Barbara Raue

Port Elgin Ontario Book 2 and Area in Colour Photos Barbara Raue

Port ElginIn 1854, Benjamin Shantz acquired a sawmill on Mill Creek from George Butchart. Nearby he built a gristmill and within three years a community of 250 people developed around these mills. Stores, hotels and tanneries were built and a village plot for Port Elgin was laid out in 1857. Businessmen Henry Hilker, Samuel Bricker, and John Stafford contributed to the development of the settlement. The original economic development of Port Elgin during the 19th century was based on its harbour facilities on Lake Huron constructed in 1857-1858 making the village a distribution centre for the surrounding agricultural region. The arrival of the Wellington, Grey and Bruce Railway in 1872 further stimulated the growth of the community. ChatsworthChatsworth is located on the Toronto-Sydenham Road, Highway 10, south of Owen Sound (formerly called Sydenham). The northern terminus of the early colonization road, The Toronto-Sydenham Road, was located near here at its junction with the Garafraxa Road. Free grants of fifty acre lots were given to persons fulfilling the settlement duties, and by 1851 about four hundred families had moved here. DornochThe village of Dornoch is located about 11 kilometers north of the Town of Durham on Highway 6 in Grey County. It is part of Chatsworth Township. Dornoch is 11 kilometers south of Williamsford and 33 kilometers south of Owen Sound. Dornoch was settled by Bartholomew Griffin in 1841. The area was originally called "Griffin's Corners". Griffin started the first general store. The village is primarily a small farming community, but has a convenience store that is known for its photography and ice cream, a community hall, as well as the recently rebuilt Dawg House Inn. Creek Bank and GoldstoneMapleton is a township in Wellington County; the township was formed by the amalgamation of the townships of Maryborough and Peel, and the village of Drayton on January 1, 1999. The township also contains the smaller communities of Creek Bank, and Goldstone, to name just two of them.