Ontario's Provincial Plaques

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Ball's Grist-Mill

Photo by Alan L Brown - August 22, 2004

Photo by Alan L Brown - March 25, 2007

Plaque Location

The Region of Niagara
The Town of Lincoln
On the north side of Sixth Avenue, east off County Road 24 south of County Road 81, just east of the Twenty Mile Creek bridge

Plaque Text

By 1809 John and George Ball had constructed a four-storey grist-mill here on Twenty Mile Creek. Equipped with two run of stones, the mill provided flour for British troops during the War of 1812. It was expanded during the 1840's and by the end of the decade was part of a complex which included sawmills and woollen factories. About that time George Peter Mann Ball laid out a village plot named Glen Elgin. His plans for an industrial community were thwarted, however, when the Great Western Railway by-passed the site in the early fifties. By 1900 the industries had declined and the grist-mill had been partially dismantled. Closed in 1910, the mill was acquired from the Ball family in 1962 by the Niagara Peninsula Conservation Authority.

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