At its height it contained mills, a distillery, a pail factory, two inns, and a Catholic church, which allowed the town to flourish to over 300 residents by 1870.Īfter the railway arrived in 1854, canal shipping took a steep drop. Thompson who was elected to parliament in 1841. This abandoned town is only a few minutes north of the community of Cayuga of Haldimand County, located by the Grand River, and was founded by David I. Where: near the Ruthven Park National Historic Site.
