Colchester

Colchester is a network and unincorporated place in Southwestern Ontario, the southernmost settlement on terrain Canada, and the southernmost point except for Point Pelee National Park. It is situated on the north shore of Lake Erie, around 6 kilometers south of the town of Harrow. Colchester was some time ago piece of the Township of Colchester South and is currently a piece of the amalgamated Town of Essex inside the County of Essex. Colchester imparts its postal code to Harrow as N0R 1G0.

Europeans started to settle in Colchester in the eighteenth century. Many United Empire Loyalists leaving the United States around the season of the American Revolutionary War were given land allows in Colchester. Some of names of these pioneers can in any case be discovered today in the names of inhabitants all through the area including: Snider, Huffman, Ferris, Hutchins, Iler, McCormick, Quick, and Tofflemire. One such Loyalist was John Snider of Pennsylvania.

In 1798 Snider was given Lot 82 along the lakefront and manufactured a home for his family only west of the town. As the most seasoned known structure along Lake Erie's shoreline, the house was finished in 1813 and a letter from the time shows that men were chipping away at the home's rooftop as guns thundered amid the Battle of Lake Erie. The territory was additionally a goal for slaves getting away from the U.S. through the Underground Railroad in the mid-nineteenth century, and for liberated slaves amid and after the American Civil War.