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Gilberts: Early Kent Bridge had distillery, foundry, ferry service and post office
The village of Kent Bridge had distillery, foundry, ferry service and post office in its early days.
The Arnold family, like the Dolsens, the Fields and other German Loyalists found their way to what is now Chatham-Kent beginning in the 1790s, after Alexander McKee “purchased” this land from First Nations people. Try to imagine how it must have felt for these people, finally coming to a place they could call their own, and which promised peace. (Of course, they didn’t know war would come again in another 20 years.) They had been put out of their homes – most of them in Pennsylvania – about 15 years before that.
By the time they........