In 2022, the Toronto and Region Conservation Authority upgraded and widened the river berm to withstand a 500-year flood event. The panels shown below were removed at that time and will be replaced by a new display sometime in the future.
Since these tablets were created, access to online records and data has provided clarity around some of the facts and details above:
Panel 3: Item #3: the flour mill was operating by 1824. Item #4: The Bolton Flour Mill (1846).
Panel 7: George Bolton purchased 200 acres on June 5th, 1821. His ‘relative’ James Bolton was actually his older brother. George sold his mill to his nephew in 1845.
Panel 8: Early (1842) mill dam. Photo date is 1897.
Panel 9: Humber Lea Road. Photo date is 1897.
Panel 10: Bolton Flour Mill (the second mill). It was constructed by James C. Bolton Jr. beginning in 1845 and completed by late 1846 and includes sections of the original mill.
Panel 17: The photo shows David McFall with his grandparents, David Hughes and Jerusha Doan Hughes.
Panel 18: The work on the dam and along the Humber River was completed in 1983.