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Welcome to our small but constantly expanding collection of articles of local history -- many  culled from newspaper accounts of their day, others prepared exclusively for this web site.  This History section is not an organized collection of resources as much as it is  a random set of "stories of interest" listed more or less chronologically.

The Marburg Mastodon Our Norfolk Timeline Norfolk's 1st European visitors Witch Doctor John Troyer Durand's apprenticed slave 1804 Census First Teacher: Wm. Pitt Gilbert Settler John Kitchen Pioneers of Townsend Pioneer Education  Early Highway 3 and Vittoria John Carrow's remembrances McCall's 1834 letter home Early Newspapers 1844 Long Point Advocate Heroine of Long Point 1857-1875 Circus Boy Egerton Ryerson Mark Brown family history 1861 Methodists rebuilt church Reminiscences of Norfolk 1860's Wranglers Baseball 2.0 Clark remembers Waterford Rev. Aaron Slaght biography Norfolk County in 1865 Blacks in 1860's Simcoe Colonel Walker Powell Early Courtland History of Egypt School 31 Mar 1870 Norfolk Reformer Vittoria, circa 1875 Bell's long-distance anniversary 1877 Waterford & Townsend Early Waterford pdf Hayes' 1877 report to Council William Nevett's biography pdf Honorable David M. Walker The Battersby House 1879 Birth, Marriage Deaths The Exodus 1884 Baseball League Schedule Norfolk's Alligators Simcoe Memories Wiggins School, 1892 1899 Horseless Carriage Typing Champ Cyclone History of west Norfolk Foley remembers John Cowan Canada Facts 0f 1901 1901 looks at the future Canadian Canners incorporated Delhi Canning Factory destroyed A Much Married Woman Canners Hockey Norfolk Historical Society 1908 Simcoe Mayors, 1878 to 1910 Simcoe's New Post Office Waterford's Telephone Factory 1910 Public Schools in Norfolk  A Day of Runaways Norfolk's first Boy Scouts 1911 Census numbers Fruit Guru James Johnson Coming to St. Williams in 1912 Flying Machines

Methodist Restrictions Stringer's Simcoe Rose's 1914 trip West Did Shelley murder Shoup? Rural elementary schools Canadian Canners formed Pioneer Telegrapher J. B. Austin Good Housekeeping Mrs. Curtis Simcoe editor's Canadian career Mitt & Glove Destroyed   Gloves, Robes & Rainwear pdf Simcoe Litho wiped out WWI plowing photo Enumerating Women 1917 Halifax Explosion The Heat Embargo Loafing is now illegal North Norfolk Phone appeals South School caretaker hired The Spanish "Flu" War over | Celebrate | The Loan History of Norfolk's Carillon Tower Carillon Tower's WWI Plaque Waterford/Townsend Cenotaph 1919 Elementary School Stats Port Rowan fires County Home picnic St. James destroyed by fire Census: 1901 vs. 1921 Simcoe Alligator Hardware Store's history Medical Fees Port Dover's Summer Garden Norfolk Telephone Rate Protest The Simcoe Reformer Sold   Shall we advertise on radio?   Innes' Christmas gift   Battersby House Sold   Radio's influence on Libraries Burt Stables bites the dust   J. B. Jackson, Johnson Bros. merger Alberta Premier John Brownlee British Knitwear progress Most Significant Contribution 1927 Model A comes to Simcoe McCoy Tragedy   Norfolk's First Divorce   Reformer to include Star   History of the Wallace store   Cantelon: Norfolk Artist Chas. Walters, Financial Expert Frederick Philip Grove W. H. Abbey Plumbing & Heating William Mussel awarded O.B.E. Langton bank robber kills two Marjorie Kelly Miss Canada 1951 The Beatty Murder Norfolk Hotel fire, 1957 Bruce Pearce biography Hockey Legend "Red" Kelly Rick Danko rocked the planet 2001 NHL Hockey Club Hoskins: Saved lives under fire Kudelka: Order of Canada Onley: Lieutenant-Governor Annaleise Carr set records

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