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This farming town northwest of Belleville features a number of historic buildings bearing plaques describing the original uses of those structures. It's your chance to go discover on this road trip.

A prolific and accomplished playwright, Merrill Denison was born in Detroit and raised in Ontario. Denison soon began to write comedies, some of which were conceived at his summer home in Bon Echo and performed in the playhouse located in Tweed, at the corner if Jamieson & Colbourne Streets.

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

Marmora is Upper Canada's first pioneer irontown, established in 1821. There you will find a plaque about Harold Colman Rickaby (1890-1975) who was Deputy Minister of the Ontario Department of Mines for twenty-two years. He was largely responsible for the first government airborne magnetic survey in Ontario (1949), which led directly to the discovery of the Marmoraton iron mine 120 feet under the surface near Marmora.

Just north of Belleville, near the village of Roslin lays Chisholm's Mill. More than a century old, this mill has been in the same family for 6 generations. It's part of Hastings County Historical Society's itineraries that you can find on their website.