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The Buxton Settlement 1849

Photo by Alan L Brown - August, 2004

Plaque Location

Municipality of Chatham-Kent
at coordinates N 42 16.459 W 82 10.950
on the north-west corner of Road 6 and Road 8.

Plaque Text

In 1849 the "Elgin Association", founded by a Presbyterian minister, the Reverend William King (1812-95), purchased 1740 ha of land in this area on which were settled freed and fugitive Negro slaves. Under King's direction the settlement prospered, and in 1851 Buxton post office, named after Sir T.F. Buxton, the British emancipator, was opened. By 1864 the community contained about 1000 persons, a combined saw and grist-mill, a brickyard and other small industries. During the U.S. Civil War seventy Buxton settlers served in the Union forces. Following that conflict a number of the settlers returned to their former homes in the United States, but descendants of those remaining still live in this region.

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