Category: Ingersoll, Ontario
Categories: Oxford County, Ontario
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Ingersoll is a town in Oxford County, Ontario, on the Thames River. The area was first settled by Thomas Ingersoll, who was born in Massachusetts and immigrated to Upper Canada (Ontario) following the American Revolution. In 1793, he obtained a land grant of 66,000 acres in Oxford County from Governor John Graves Simcoe. He named the new settlement Oxford-on-the-Thames and later as Ingersollville. In 1822 the post office opened as Oxford. In 1852 the name was changed to Ingersoll in honour of Thomas Ingersoll. Nine years later, In 1861, the village was incorporated as a town.
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