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iÂ¥ & & B4 Officially it no longer According to "Townsend exists, but the former Town and Waterford, A Double The reeve and four of Waterford, now in City Portrait", a history of the councillors . passed. bylaws . of _ Nanticoke, _ is _ still erea, "half way through the ranging from limiting the . celebrating _ its _ 100th 19th century the village number of taverns and anniversary during 1978. boasted two distilleries, a regulating billiard tables in | . It failed to survive a full ) _ tannery, steam â€" sawmill, the village to allowing for H century as a mun}cipality, three _ wagonâ€"makers, . a stre‘et repairs and c cut down in its prime (96) brickmaker and a range of prohibiting bicycles from & m by a political force known stores and other services." running on the sidewalk. | 21 o ~ as Regional Government. Unfortunately, fire | g‘ On April 1, 1974, The Townsend contained a control seemed not to be | x Regional _ Municipality of number of hamlets and among the town‘s priorities | E’ Haldimandâ€"Norfolk _ came other ~small communities and through the years a E @ into _ being _ and _ all such as _ Boston, number of fires caused S P fi municipalities failed to exist Bloomsburg, Villa _ Nova, extensive damage to the ' z> as individual communities. T<_>wnsend Centre, _ and | town and its economy. 2 fi @ The former Town of Wilsonville, A _ furniture _ factory i 6\ Waterford has a history as _ In 1847 Waterford was burned in 1881, Green‘s & fi intriguing as any given the nod as the foundry in 1883, and a g : community, studded with principal community in the paint shop in 1889. Fire § fi interesting characters and township when a public protection â€" was improved E m numerous important events, meeting of area residents | with a cistern under the & h some happy and others _ ~Stlected it as the site for the town hall in 1914 and other o ® disastrous. township hall. additions . of â€" equipment S From the time the first There. were about 450 afterwards, but damage had 5 building was erected and the beople at the meeting and , already been done. first _ family â€" moved in, Waterford was selected over Coupled _ with . several | ® through incorporation as a a strong . minority who | bank failures, and high tax fi ~ village and amalgamation wanted the hall built at rates, it was enough to | into regional government, Townsend _ Centre. The discourage continued \ @ the community of Pl‘E‘Sence. of the township | growth in the village. Before Waterford has gone through hall (which burned in 1897 | the turn of the century | O many changes. and wasn‘t rebuilt until Waterford‘s population | ' } The town got its start 1902) _ encouraged _ the peaked at about 1,200 in h back in 1800 when Paul growth of Waterford. 1891. Ten years later it poin Avery built the first grist Another major factor in stood at only 1,000. c mill on Nanticoke Creek,. _ the community‘s expansion Population _ started f = With the mill to attract at that time was Green‘s growing again in the 20th 1 w farmers and other businesses h century, especially after the I H | the community was starting foundry. _ Established _ in first and second world wars. m its growth. 1844 by James Loder However, there was not_a * The War of 1812 set Green, the small operation substantial growth in @ ~ progress ‘in the area back eventually grew into an business to accompany, the ‘ fi through burning and looting internationally _ known growth in population. ‘ m | _ by American troops. factory producing. reapers, * fi Waterford suffered as did mowers, saws, ‘seed drills Better _ transportation .“ the _ rest of Townsend and _ other _ agricultural methods meant people were | Township, with one of the implements. able to get to Simcoe and main targets of the flames The Waterford factory Brantfo.rd to take advantage | being the mills. produced 2,000 reapers per of their larger shopping | However, _ by . 1815 year and won awards in a districts. k 4 repairs to the mills had been number®â€" of | international With the introduction of completed by Job Loder agricultural expositions. By regional . government . in % @ and growth continued. In the late 1870s the foundry 1974, Waterford . was again the 1820s the community, was â€" the town‘s largest tied in with Townsend, this : ~jaad |__ after going through a series _ employer with a payroll of time as part of City of of names, came to be called 200 people. Nanticoke. Growth in the : Waterford. The name stuck In 1878, after reaching k 4 m % and through that decade the required population of city is expected to be @ ~ Q distilleries, mills, stores and | _ 750 on less than 500 acres considerable in the next few other businesses took their | _ of land, Waterford was years, part:cularly becau§e Q place in the town. | _ incorporated as a village. of _ Steleo‘s Lake _ Erie o In 1826 the community Being separate from the development project. ks S .fl got a post office and by | _ township, the village elected | Uf‘de" the _ region‘s ‘ H H 1830 the saw mill was doing | _ its own council, handled its official _ plan _ proposal a booming business. own taxes and passed: its Waterford would eventually * : own bylaws. reach a population of t between 4,000 and 5,000. Iq Tt O That‘s a long way from a i U p Q single grist mill. iva t ?f\ "Aime! #m a iA abetaiiti L ale ts eetuiit has s i Ne 2tl.. .. 1