The cross-roads of St. Agatha, originally named Wilmot, was settled about 1824 by Amish Mennonites from the U.S. and Alsace-Lorraine. Catholic and Lutheran settlers followed in the early 1830’s. Photo credit: Lisa Rance, June 2014
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Autumn in Neustadt village built by Scottish- and Baden-German stonemasons. The owner of Noah’s Inn said the interior wall lathe were not individual strips, but were larger branches that had been split, remaining attached, accordion-style. Visit the Neustadt Springs Brewery! Photo credit: Lisa Rance, October 2013
The Fryvogel Tavern, constructed 1844 in the NeoClassical style, by the county’s first settler Sebastian Fryfogel, to replace an earlier log tavern placed by the Canada Company on the Huron Colonization Road. The five-acre site is being restored as a community centre, arboretum and Swiss-German Four Square Heritage Garden (Fryvogel was Swiss). Address: 1931 ON-7, Perth East, ON. Photo credit: Lisa Rance, August 2011