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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM275R_fairfield-on-the-thames-the-fairfield-mission_Bothwell-Ontario.html
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Fairfield on the Thames / Fairfield sur la Thames
Here stood the village of Fairfield, destroyed by invading American forces following the Battle of the Thames. , 5th October, 1813.
Its inhabitants, Delaware Indian exil…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM21SD_the-wilkins-expedition_Morpeth-Ontario.html
On November 7, 1763 a fleet of small boats carrying nearly 700 officers and men of the 60th and 80th Regiments under Major John Wilkins was forced ashore by a violent storm abut three miles east of this point. The expedition had set out from Niaga…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1HKF_the-founding-of-dresden_Dresden-Ontario.html
In 1846 Daniel van Allen, a Chatham merchant, laid out a town plot on land purchased from Jared Lindsley, the first settler (1825) on the site of Dresden. By 1849 the erection of a steam sawmill, and the operation a grist-mill in the neighbouring …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1HKD_harris-house_Dresden-Ontario.html
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This house belonged to James Harris and his family, who are believed to be descendants of Weldon Harris, an African American who came to Canada and in 1825 purchased 50 acres on Lot 3, Concession 3 in Camden Township. Weldon Harris made …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1HKC_sawmill_Dresden-Ontario.html
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This area was once covered in a thick, growth of trees including black walnut, maple, beech, elm and white oak. To make use of these natural resources, Josiah Henson and his sons used donations from benefactors in Boston to build a sawmi…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1HJY_henson-house_Dresden-Ontario.html
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Built in the mid-19th century, this house was the last residence of Josiah Henson and his second wife, Nancy Gambril, who lived in it until Henson's death in 1883. Henson's house was substantial in size compared to other residential buil…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1HJX_spirituality-and-community_Dresden-Ontario.html
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Built around 1850, this modest rural church was moved from Mersea Township to this site in the 1960s and is representative of the churches in which Reverend Henson preached while living at Dawn.
Reverend Josiah Henson was most closely…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1HJA_the-dawn-settlement_Dresden-Ontario.html
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In the 1830s, the Reverend Josiah Henson and other abolitionists sought ways to provide refugees from slavery with the education and skills they needed to become self-sufficient in Upper Canada. They purchased 200 acres of land here in 1…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1HJ9_josiah-henson_Dresden-Ontario.html
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After escaping to Upper Canada from slavery in Kentucky, the Reverend Josiah Henson became a conductor of the Underground Railroad and a force in the abolition movement. The founder of the Black settlement of Dawn, he was also an entrepr…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1HII_british-army-river-crossing-to-dolsens-landing_Chatham-Kent-Ontario.html
Upon sighting American war ships at the mouth of the Thames River on October 1, 1813, the British Army boarded scows and bateaux near this site. One by one, the boats and their cargo were pulled across the river to their next encampment site at Do…