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Founders of Campbellford
Photo by Alan L Brown - Posted July, 2005
Photo from Google Street View ©2010 Google - Posted November, 2010
Plaque Location
The County of Northumberland
The Municipality of Trent Hills
In Campbellford, in a park
on the east side of Queen Street (Road 50)
just north of Bridge Street
Coordinates: N 44 18.571 W 77 47.995 |
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Plaque Text
In 1831 two Scottish-born brothers, Lieut.-Col. Robert Campbell and Major David Campbell, were granted 890 ha of land in Seymour Township, which had been surveyed in 1819. Robert who had achieved an outstanding record in the Napoleonic Wars, died here in 1836, while David served as Crown Land Agent for the Township, 1832-39. Here at "Campbell's ford" there arose a settlement which, about 1853, was named Campbellford. David Campbell, by then living in Cobourg, formed a syndicate in 1856 with Nesbitt Kirchhoffer and James Cockburn to develop Campbellford, which was incorporated as a village in 1876. Campbell died at "Sidbrook", his Cobourg estate, in 1881.
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