Historical Markers and War Memorials in Bothwell

By Tim Boyd, May 11, 2025

Bothwell Cenotaph

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1 ► Ontario, Chatham-Kent, Bothwell, Zone Township — Bothwell Cenotaph —

On Main Street at Elm Street East on Main Street.

In Flanders fields the poppies blow between the crosses row on row 1914 - 1918 Their name endureth for evermore Our Honoured Dead Bert Lawrence · Wm Little · Hugh Mccall · Cliff Miller · Kenneth Parker · Fred Newman · Ernest . . . — — Map (db m273197) WM

2 ► Ontario, Chatham-Kent, Bothwell, Zone Township — The Founding of Bothwell, 1855 —

On Main Street North (Chatham-Kent County Road 22) at Elm Street East on Main Street North (Chatham-Kent County Road 22).

In 1851 George Brown, founder of the Toronto Globe and one of Canada's Fathers of Confederation, purchased about 4000 acres in this vicinity. The Great Western Railway ran through his property in 1855 and that year a station and a post office were . . . — — Map (db m272395) HM

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