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The headwaters of the Duffins Creek are located in the Oak Ridges Moraine area, [20] within the boundaries of Uxbridge, Pickering, Markham, and Whitchurch-Stouffville. The mouth of the stream is located in Ajax. [15] The Duffins Creek drains an area of 283 sq. km., much of which is owned by the government.
Carruthers Creek in eastern part of Ajax. Multiple archaeological sites identified with indigenous peoples are located in the watersheds of the Duffins Creek and the Carruthers Creek, in Ajax and surrounding areas. [1] [2] Projectile points from the Late Paleo-Indian period (10000–7000 BCE) have been discovered in the Duffins Creek watershed. [3]
[3] [4] [5] In 1760, French Sulpician missionaries from Ganatsekwyagon reached the Duffins Creek area, but did not settle there. [6] After the British conquest of New France in 1760, the area became part of the Pickering Township. Mike Duffin, an Irish fur trader, is the earliest known European to have settled in the area, in the 1770s. [7]
Pickering Village is a former municipality and now a neighbourhood in the town of Ajax, within the Durham Region of Ontario, Canada.The Pickering Village derives its name from the former Pickering Township, which included the present-day town of Ajax and the city of Pickering.
The stream is named after Richard Carruthers (1819-1887), an English immigrant from Cumberland, whose family owned 202 acres along the banks of the Creek.Carruthers, a farmer, purchased Lots 4 and 5 on Concession Road 1 in January 1856 and September 1862, and the land remained in his family until at least the 1940s.
Milford is a city in Clermont and Hamilton counties in the U.S. state of Ohio. [6] Milford is the westernmost city in Appalachian Ohio, [7] and located along the Little Miami River and its East Fork in the southwestern part of the state, it is a part of the Cincinnati metropolitan area. The population was 6,582 at the 2020 census. [5]
Hotel Cleveland, right, connected to Terminal Tower. The 1000-room Hotel Cleveland was built at a cost of $4.5 million and opened on December 16, 1918. [4] Charles Lindbergh spoke in a ballroom at the hotel in 1927, three months after completing his solo Trans-Atlantic flight. [5]
Bellefontaine (/ b ɛ l ˈ f aʊ n t ən / bel-FOWN-tən [5]) is a city in, and the county seat of, Logan County, Ohio, United States, [6] located 48 miles (77 km) northwest of Columbus. The population was 14,115 at the 2020 census. It is the principal city of the Bellefontaine micropolitan area, which includes all of Logan County