In 1853 Billa Flint (1805-94), a lumberman, member of the legislative assembly and later of the senate, built sawmills here on the Skootamatta River.

In 1857, ten years before Confederation, William Fraser Chisholm (1829-1908) acquired Shipman's Mill on the Moira River.

The viral disease of smallpox - widespread in 19th century Ontario - flared up in a severe epidemic in Hungerford Township in 1884.

The Thomasburg Spring provided fresh, cool water for generations of thirsty travellers and their horses.

The bell was donated by the Epworth League in 1892 after the original bell was destroyed in a church fire.

During the 1830s a settlement, initially called Munroe's Mills and later Hungerford Mills, developed here on the Moira River.