Rural Routes - Town of Ingersoll (Lower Tier Oxford)

36 Charles St. W.
Ingersoll, Ontario
N5C 2L6

Ontario Tourism Region : Southwestern

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Pop. 10,000. In North Oxford and West Oxford Ts., Oxford C., on the Thames R. and Hwy 19 and C. Rd. 9, 32 km E of London.
The town is named after Maj. Thomas Ingersoll, a member of a wealthy Massachusetts family, who brought settlers to the Niagara Peninsula in 1793 after being promised 80,000 acres (32,400 ha) of land.
The British government revoked its promise, and Ingersoll settled instead on the Thames R. trail where First Nations Peoples used to cross to Brantford to see their chief, Joseph Brant.
The community was first known as Oxford-Upon-The-Thames and later as Ingersollville.
In 1822 the post office opened as Oxford. In 1852 the name was changed to Ingersoll. The major's eldest daughter, Laura, married United Empire Loyalist James Secord, a sergeant in the First Lincoln Militia.
During the War of 1812, Laura Secord walked 32 km through the bush from her home at Queenston to warn the British commander of an impending American attack.
Major Ingersoll left the area in 1805 to settle at what is now Oakville near Toronto, but his son Charles returned in 1817 and laid out the townsite. In 1857 a great hoax was pulled here.
Rumours of an alligator-like creature in the village pond drew 10,000 people to watch attempts to capture it. Supervising the operation was an eminent scientist from the United States, whose airs alienated the locals.
There was great dehght when he finally caught the monster -- the stuffed carcass of a cow!
In 1866 Ingersoll cheese producers manufactured a 7,300-pound (3,311 kg) cheese. It was 21 feet (6.4 m) in circumference and was exhibited at the New York State Fair and in London, England.

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Off the beaten track:	Centreville, Ingersoll area, 2km Dunn's Corner, 4km Hagles Corners, 4km Zorra Station, 7km Rayside, 6km Salford, 6km Foldens, 6km Dicksons Corners, 6km Cody's Corners, 9km Putnam, 9km Verschoyle, 11km Golspie, 11km Dorland, Woodstock area, 10km Sweaburg, 10km Banner, 10km Crampton, 12km Thamesford, 11km	Dereham Centre, 14km Holiday, 13km Avon, 15km Zenda, 13km Perrys Lane, 15km Culloden, 17km Tollgate, 15km Braemar, 17km Curries, 13km Willow Lake, 17km Mount Vernon, Tillsonburg area, 18km Youngsville, 18km Bennington, 18km Huntingford, 19km Ostrander, 18km Holbrook, 15km Three Bridges, 15km	Delmer, 20km Brownsville Station, 21km Strathallan, 21km Brooksdale, 21km Newark, 17km Oxford Centre, 17km Bond's Corners, 18km Bradburn Subdivision, 21km Evelyn, 17km Gladstone, 20km Westmount, Tillsonburg area, 22km Glenridge, Tillsonburg area, 22km Springfield, Aylmer area, 24km Corinth, 25km Lyons, 23km Tillsonburg Junction, 23km
Nearby Lakes:	Centreville Pond, 2km Mud Lake, 9km Spring Lake, 14km Embro Pond, 15km Hodges Pond, 12km Lake Whittaker, 16km Mud Lakes, 18km Mill Pond, 17km Sunova Lake, 21km Lake Lisgar, 22km Beattie Pond, 20km Harrington Pond, 24km Foster Ponds, 21km Trout Lake, 23km St. Josephs Lake, 24km Wildwood Lake, 26km Trotters Lake, 24km	Fowlers Pond, 25km Buchanan Lake, 26km Buck Pond, 26km Park Haven Lake, 26km Maple Lake, 27km Pine Pond, 26km Mill Pond, 25km Fanshawe Lake, 25km Tennants Pond, 27km Cooley Pond, 27km McCarthy Lake, 36km Pond Mills, 28km Springwater Pond, 35km White's Pond, 36km Shakespeare Pond, 38km Lake Victoria, 38km Westminster Ponds, 30km	Walkers Pond, 30km Burgess Lake, 33km Lake Hunger, 33km Levey Lake, 34km The Cove, 33km Pinafore Lake, 40km Spongy Lake, 46km Hofstetter Lake, 45km Sanders Pond, 44km Alder Lake, 44km Union Pond, 45km Watson Pond, 44km O'neals Pond, 42km Sunfish Lake, 52km Jedburgh Pond, 45km Bell's Pond, 49km

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