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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.
Duffins cabin was located on the east side of the Creek, north of Kingston Road. [9] Augustus Jones, who surveyed the area for the Government of Upper Canada in 1791, named the Duffins Creek after him. [6] [8] The municipality that contained the area was known as Edinburgh Township until 1792, when it was renamed to Pickering Township. [11]
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]
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A few communities also developed in the smaller Carruthers Creek watershed, including Audley (now part of Ajax), Kinsale, and Salem. [13] In 1849, the village of Dunbarton was established along the Dunbarton Creek. [12] The Grand Trunk Railway reached the Township in 1856. [7] Pickering was represented in the Mackenzie Rebellion of 1837.
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The Hermitage Hotel, is a historic hotel located at 231 6th Avenue North in Nashville, Tennessee. Commissioned by 250 Nashville residents in 1908 [ 2 ] and named for Andrew Jackson 's estate, The Hermitage near Nashville, [ 3 ] the hotel opened in 1910. [ 4 ]