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• Colonel Thomas Hornor 1767-1834
  Born in New Jersey, Hornor first came to Upper Canada in 1793 and visited the unsettled township of Blenheim. Disposing of his holdings in the United States, he emigrated to Blenheim in 1795. That year, he completed (on lot 15, concession 1) the first sawmill, and in 1802 the first grist-mill, in what is now Oxford County. In 1800, he was appointed a justice of the peace for the London District and registrar for Oxford...

• Wolverton Hall
  This fine brick house, regency in style with some Gothic touches, was built about 1854-55 by Enos Wolverton. It retains the splendid circular stairs, which originally led to a windowed belvedere above the house's roof. Wolverton was born in Cayuga County, New York, in 1810 and came to Canada in 1826. In 1844, he bought 200 acres here on the River Nith and in 1851, laid out a village plot. He became Wolverton's first postmaster...