"FOUNDERS OF CAMPBELLFORD" - Campbellford, ON - Ontario Provincial Plaques on Waymarking.com

Marker denoting the history of the founders and founding of Campbellford.

Text reads:

In 1831 two Scottish-born brothers Lieut-Col Robert
Campbell and Maj David Campbell, were granted 2200
acres of land in Seymour Township, which had been
surveyed in 1819. Robert, who had achieved an out-
standing record in the Napoleonic Wars, died here in
1836, while David served as Crown Land Agent for the
township 1832 - 1839. 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" which was his Cobourg estate, in 1881.

Address or location of plaque: Queen Street (CR 50) north of Main Street Bridge, Campbellford, ON Physical location of plaque: Town "Ontario Plaques" Website for this "Plaque": [Web Link] Description of any physical remains at site of "Historical Plaque": Marker is located along Trent River just south of church and northor of the Campbellford Cenotaph. This 'Plaque' describes: A 'Person' Condition of sign: Good Is this a bilingual sign?: No ! A web-site for more details.: Not listed What is the second/third language?: Not listed

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