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The Founding of Springfield
Photo by contributor Eugenio DiMeo - Posted June, 2005
Photo from Google Street View ©2011 Google - Posted February, 2011
Plaque Location
The County of Elgin
The Township of Malahide
In Springfield, in the main hallway inside this building at
51221 Ron McNeil Line (Road 52)
(A comment posted below mentions that
the plaque has been moved to a new location.)
Coordinates: N 42 49.783 W 80 56.040 |
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Plaque Text
About 1850, some ten years after this area was settled, a school and a Methodist meeting house were erected here on the town line between the Townships of South Dorchester and Malahide. Shortly afterwards a post-office named Clunas was opened, with Archibald Clunas as postmaster. Although a village plot called Springfield was surveyed in 1857, its growth was slow until the Canada Southern Railway, completed in 1873, selected Springfield as a station site. The community quickly became the commercial centre for the surrounding fertile agricultural area and attracted a number of industries, including a flax-mill and several grist-mills. The population numbered about 800 in 1877 when Elgin County Council passed the by-law incorporating Springfield as a Village.
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Posted March 3, 2012
This sign has now been moved with the permission of the Township of Malahide. It is now located in the Memorial Park at 51137 Ron McNeil Line. It is outside mounted on a sign for all to see ... 365 days a year. [Editor's Response: If anyone is able to photograph the plaque in its new location for this website, please first contact me at . Thanks.]
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