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Ontario Tourism Region : Kawartha and Northumberland
Description From Owner:
- Pop. 356. In Cramahe T., Northumberland C., on C. Rds. 22 & 25, 30 km NE of Cobourg. Joseph A. Keeler, son of the township's first settler, built a grist mill at Castleton in 1795.
- The post office was established as Castleton in 1852, possibly named after a place in Vermont from which some settlers had come.
- In the community's heyday, the mid-1800s, there were four sawmills and a number of other industries, which sustained a population of 700 people.
- The surrounding forests were depleted by the 1880s, the sawmills began closing and the inhabitants moved away to seek new jobs.
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