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The Hamilton Historical Board is
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share a passion for the history of the great
City of Hamilton.
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The mandate of The Hamilton Historical
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To advise City Council on heritage matters
and to promote awareness, appreciation &
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Each Ward Historical Fact Sheet presents
ward-specific facts from the many hundreds
of facts that exist for each ward. It is the
hope of The Hamilton Historical Board that
these Historical Facts Sheets serve as a
beginning, not an end. The HHB encourages
residents to provide their Councillors with
additional facts that may be included in
future editions of the Historical Fact Sheets.
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Each of the 15 Ward Councillors, and the
Mayor, has been presented with paper and
electronic copies to distribute to their
constituents and to visitors.
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Besides its waterfalls, Ward 14 contains some of the
regions greatest tourist attractions such as African
Lion Safari, Westfield Heritage Centre, Flamborough
Downs Raceway/Casino, Flamborough Speedway and
the Hamilton Brantford Rail Trail.
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Also tumbling over the escarpment edge into
Spencer Gorge is Tews Falls. At 135 feet high (41
meters), it is the highest waterfall in this region and
provides a spectacular sight from two viewing
platforms on the Bruce Trail.
This Ward 14 Historical Fact Sheet is one
in a series of 15 Ward Historical Fact
Sheets prepared by members of The
Hamilton Historical Board.
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Webster’s Falls is
named after
Joseph Webster
who built a house
there in 1819. A
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large stone mill
called Ashbourne
Mill beside the
waterfall. By 1855
he had added a
cotton mill to the
site. The mills
were destroyed by
fire in 1898. The
following year the
first hydroelectric
power station in
Webster’s Falls c. 1906.
Dundas was built
below the falls. The
entire site is part of the Webster’s Falls Conservation
Area and became a park in 1938 with funds donated
from the estate of Colonel W. Knowles. The
Cobblestone Bridge in the park was re-constructed
in 2000 by funds raised in the village of Greensville.
About the Ward Historical Fact Sheets
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Ward 14 Historical Fact Sheet
Beverly and West Flamborough were two of the
eight townships that comprised the former
Wentworth County which was established in 1853
and dissolved in 1973.
Ward 14 Historical Fact Sheet
In 1792, the direction of surveyor Augustus Jones,
the Governor’s Road was established to connect the
head of the lake with Governor Simcoe’s proposed
site of the capital of Upper Canada on the Thames
River.
In 1841 the population of Beverly was 2,654 and the
population of West Flamborough was 1,341.
On September
24, 1669, the
French explorer
René Cavalier de
la Salle met with
Neutral Indians in
the village of
Tinawatawa, near
the present-day
Westover on the
edge of the
Beverly Swamp.
One of the oldest hotels in West Flamborough was
The British House, built by William Bullock circa
1837 at the intersection of the Brock Road and the
Old Stone Road. William Bullock also built a large
gristmill and sawmill nearby on Spencer Creek in
1841 giving the name Bullock’s Corners to the
intersection of the Galt Highway and Brock Road.
The mill was leased to the Clark brothers in 1866
and converted into a blanket factory. Part of the mill
still remains today as a craft shop.
Robert Kirkland
Kernighan, aka ‘the
Khan’ was a prolific
writer for the Hamilton Spectator, the Hamilton
Herald and such papers as the Toronto Globe and
the Toronto Telegram in the late nineteenth and early
twentieth centuries. Khan was born on April 25,
1857 at his family’s Rushdale Farm in Beverly
Township and received his formal education at
Rockton Grammar School.
Spencer Creek is named after the family of Joseph
Spencer (1806 – 1851) who built the ‘Gore Street
Grist Mill’ in 1834 near the site of the present
District School.
The widow Anne Morden and her family were the
first settlers in the Dundas Valley. Her son Jonathan
built the first mill on the upper section of Spencer
Creek in 1801. His stone house still stands on the
north side of Crooks Hollow Road.
Beverly Township was named after the town of
Beverly in Yorkshire County, England. Flamborough
was named after the coastal town of Flamboro, also
in Yorkshire County, England.
The former townships of Beverly and West
Flamborough were surveyed in 1793 by Augustus
Jones.
Copetown is named after the family of William Cope
which settled in the area in 1795.
Rockton became the centre of Beverly when the
Township Hall was built there in 1850.
Explorer René Cavalier de
la Salle.
The first settler in Greensville was Jacob Cochenor
in 1785. He built the first bridge across Spencer
Creek. However, the community took its name from
Greens gristmill built in 1808 and a later distillery in
1818.
The first City of Hamilton Commemorative Plaque
in Ward 14 was unveiled at West Flamborough
Presbyterian Church, Christie’s Corners on
September 16. 2007.
Crooks Hollow was named after James Crooks, a
mill owner and politician who was captured by the
Americans at the Battle of Queenston Heights. The
first paper manufactured in Upper Canada was made
in Crooks Hollow by James Crooks in 1826. James
Crooks (1878 – 1860) came to Canada at the age of
13 with his brother William from Kilmarnock,
Scotland in 1891.
Crooks Hollow became the
largest industrial community in
Upper Canada by 1850 with 18
mills along Spencer Creek. The
ruins of the Darnley Mill, built in
1811 by James Crooks, still stand
below the Christie Conservation
dam. It was named for a famous
Crooks’ ancestor, Lord Darnley of
Scotland.
The heirs (four brothers) of General Sir Isaac Brock
who was killed in the Battle of Queenston Heights
were granted 12,000 acres of land by King George
III. Of this total, nearly 1,400 acres were in West
Flamborough.
Nairn School, the first to be built in the Strabane
area of West Flamborough was officially opened on
August 16, 1841.
Morden Mill.
In 1811 the Crooks brothers had a schooner built at
Niagara on the Lake. They called it the Lord Nelson.
It was confiscated by American forces for suspected
embargo infractions just prior to the War of 1812
and re-named USS Scourge. It now rests at the
bottom of Lake Ontario with its sister ship, USS
Hamilton, one of the naval archaeological wonders of
this region.
Darnley Mill.
The Lord Nelson in full sail.
The 1862 SS # 10 Beverly Schoolhouse, which cost
less than $1,000 to build, accommodated grades one
through eight.