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Historical Markers in Newburgh

 
By Cosmos Mariner, May 29, 2024
John Thomson 1837-1920 Marker
1 ► Ontario, Lennox and Addington County, Newburgh — John Thomson 1837-1920 —
On Main Street (County Road 27) at Factory Street, on the right when traveling north on Main Street.
Born in Edinburgh, Thomson emigrated in 1854 to New Jersey, there completing his apprenticeship as a paper-maker. He moved in 1860 to Saint John, N.B., where he devised an improved method for the chemical manufacture of wood pulp. Thomson then . . . — — Map (db m255496) HM
2 ► Ontario, Lennox and Addington County, Newburgh — "... a living river by the door..." — Robert Louis Stevenson —
On Factory Street 0.1 kilometers east of Main Street (County Road 27), on the right when traveling east.
Early Settlements popped up at waterfalls along the Napanee River. Lumber and grist mills could be powered by the energy of the falling water. The river became the lifeblood for the villages that grew around those early mills. Eventually water . . . — — Map (db m273725) HM
3 ► Ontario, Lennox and Addington County, Newburgh — Napanee River Watershed —
On Factory Street 0.1 kilometers east of Main Street (County Road 27), on the right when traveling east.
A watershed includes all areas that provide a source of water for a river system. The headwaters mark the start of the river. The Napanee River's headwaters lie in the Depot Lakes and Thirty Island Lake area located northeast of Napanee. Napanee . . . — — Map (db m273739) HM
4 ► Ontario, Lennox and Addington County, Newburgh — Sir Allen Bristol Aylesworth — 1854-1952 —
On Main Street (County Road 27) just south of Factory Street, on the right when traveling north.
Born in Newburgh of United Empire Loyalist ancestry, Aylesworth was educated at the University of Toronto, and called to the Ontario Bar in 1878. As the Canadian member of the Alaska Boundary Tribunal in 1903, he presented his country's views in a . . . — — Map (db m255498) HM
 
 
  
 
 
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