Midhurst Plaque / Midhust Pioneer Cairn

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Erected to mark the first saw and grist mill on Willow Creek built about 1825. Also located here were four other mills, a soap factory, a distillery and two hydro plants, which supplied Barrie in 1888. Oliver's Mills, later renamed Midhurst, added a community hall in 1854, and a church in 1881. S.S. No. 6 dates from 1866. This bell is from a second building, used from 1887 until 1962.


Springwater Park
Springwater,  ON





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