Location
Chatham-Kent
In Bothwell, on the NE corner of Main Street and Elm Street
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Photographer
Alan L Brown
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Posted
August 30, 2004
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Summary from the Ontario Heritage Foundation's website
George Brown, one of the Fathers of Confederation, owned some 4,000 acres of land in Kent County. After the Great Western Railway constructed a line and a station on his property in 1855, he had a town plot surveyed. The resulting community, named Bothwell, developed quickly. Its economic prosperity was further stimulated by the discovery of oil some years later.
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