Smithville

Smithville is a community in the township of West Lincoln. The former police town is positioned on Highway 20 between Hamilton and Niagara Falls in the Niagara Region of Ontario, Canada. Smithville is the biggest population centre and governing centre of the township of West Lincoln. Smithville was first settled by using Richard Griffin and his circle of relatives, United Empire Loyalists who got here from Nine Partners, New York in 1787. The names of his sons were Abraham, Edward, Nathaniel, Isaiah, Smith, Jonathan, and Richard Jr.

They settled on Lots 8, nine, 10, Concession IX, on the Twenty Mile Creek in Grimsby Township. Solomon Hill, who married Bethia, daughter of Richard Griffin, settled on Lot 6, Charles Meridith on Lot 7; Thomas Harris on Lot eleven, and Thomas North on Lot 12. These masses, all inside the ninth Concession have become the agreement first called Griffintown, however later renamed after Mrs. Griffin, whose maiden name became Mary Smith. Smithville, in conjunction with the the rest of South Grimsby Township became amalgamated into the newly fashioned Township of West Lincoln on January 1, 1970.