Wellington is situated on the shores of Lake Ontario with a view of the largest freshwater dunes in the world at Sandbanks Provincial Park.
Around 1770, fur trapper Daniel Reynolds traveled north from New York State to escape “overpopulation.” This area’s first white settler built himself a shack where Wellington now stands and later - with help from his Indian friends and using rocks from the beach - he built one of Ontario’s first stone houses still standing today at 239 Main Street.
The County of Prince Edward Historical Archives is located in
the Wellington library and is an excellent resource for anyone
interested in local history, including the people, events, and
properties of Prince Edward County. The mandate of the archives
is to collect and preserve printed material having any bearing on the
history of Prince Edward County.
In the 1800s Wellington was a busy shipping port with docks, warehouses, a shipyard, brewery and foundry. Fishing was serious stuff, with one spectacular haul of 40,000 whitefish recorded taken in one night, and Wellington with its fine harbour and waterfront resorts and hotels was one of the first holiday destinations in the 1800s. Wellington is now in the heart of Prince Edward County’s exciting new wine industry.
Wellington is well known for its Wellington Museum located in the
only remaining Quaker Meeting House in Prince Edward County, it
has an eclectic collection of items and artefacts showing the history
of Wellington and the surrounding area. A stunning collection of early
canning labels is the highlight of an exhibit that conveys the
importance of the canning industry in Prince Edward County.

Also in the Hillier ward is the village of Consecon, which is built on Weller’s Bay. The name Consecon comes from Indian words for "an opening" and "pickerel," and the town’s waterfront location is an important part of its past and future. Samuel Champlain made camp here in the 1600s, Kente Mission was established nearby, and European settlers arrived in the early 1800s. They dammed the river to power grist and saw mills, and the town flourished until the new Highway 33 passed it by in the 1960s.
Located in Consecon, we have the Consecon Dam Conservation Area. The Dam was constructed in 1975. The dam regulates the water level of Consecon Creek within the village, the creek eventually drains into Weller's Bay. The primary purpose of the dam is flood control and low flow augmentation. Also located in the village of Consecon is the North Beach Provincial Park,
which protects one of the several bay mouth sandbars in Prince Edward
County. The 1.2-kilometre ribbon of sand shelters tiny North Bay from
Lake Ontario.

Originally Ameliasburgh Township was known as the Seventh Town of the original Ten Towns of Upper Canada, and was settled by United Empire Loyalists in 1784. The village of Ameliasburgh was named in 1787 after Princess Amelia, the 15th child of King George III. Ameliasburgh rests on Roblin Lake, which was housed by grist, and flour mills that drew the lake’s water to the mill located in what is now Harry J. Smith Conservation area.
Ameliasburgh was originally called Roblin’s Mills until 1832 when the post office opened. Villagers chose to change the name to avoid confusion with another Roblin’s Mills to the east.

The Ameliasburgh Historical Museum has become well known as one of
the finest local museums of Ontario. Ameliasburgh Historical Museum has
grown from one building, in 1968, to a complex of many buildings and
attractions. The main building was built in 1868 as a Wesleyan Methodist
Church.
It became a United Church in 1925 and served the community until 1967 when it was closed. The Ameliasburgh Township Council purchased the church from the United Church of Canada for the sum of $1.00 and the community officially opened its museum on June 30, 1968. In the glass fronted showcases displayed all manner of heirlooms, loaned and arranged by township families. Over the years, several additional buildings have been added to the site such as: a log cabin donated in 1969, display barns, a blacksmith shop with hand pumped bellows and a forge, a sap shanty, barns, bird pens, animal compounds, a large stone building house, a bee-keeping display, a Beatty windmill, dairy / milk house, cheese-making and butter-making memorabilia also, other attractions such as a carpenter's shop, corncribs and a pea viner.

The Marilyn Adams Genealogical Research Centre (MAGRC) is the
home of various assets of the 7th Town Historical Society.
In 1990, 7th Town inherited two Trusts from the estate of Marilyn Adams
from which flowed the Marilyn Adams Genealogical Research Centre,
formally opened to the public in June of 1994, and as a research centre in August 1994. MAGRC houses the Adams' Family Museum, Cunningham House, which is one of the Trusts. The other is a fund from which the interest helps provide the over $90 per day required to operate the centre. The centre now houses a valuable and rapidly growing collection of genealogical research material and historic items of local, provincial, national and international interest. These donations have been attracted from Canada, the USA and Europe. Many personal and community group collections have been deposited, including:
• Hastings County Land Records for about 100 years prior to 1955
• Tudor & Cashel Township Records, dating back to 1852
• The Klein research on the Trips' of the Bay of Quinte
• Women's Institute Tweedsmuir histories, minute books, and other records
• Dempsey collection
• Douglas Crawford canning factory papers
• Regional assessment records for the Quinte area
• Hessian Research of Johannes (John) Helmut Merz
• Heal Research Papers and Records
• as well as other records, letters, books, Ontario Vital Statistics BMD, map collection and much much more in the genealogy library.
Other resources include access to the Names database and heal database.

Carrying Place
Of considerable historical importance, Carrying Place or the Portage was thought to have a better future than Toronto when water transport was the principal means of travel. Situated on the narrow neck of land separating the western terminus of the Bay of Quinte from Weller's Bay on Lake Ontario, it was a thriving community in the 1800's. Both ends of the old portage route were well developed to accommodate the needs of the tired traveller. Used for centuries by the Indians, Champlain rested here in 1615. A stone cairn commemorates the signing of the Gunshot Treaty of 1787. (It was by this treaty that the Mississauga Indians relinquished to the Crown all of their lands stretching from the Bay of Quinte westerly to the Etobicoke River, including the City of Toronto).
When Toronto was barely a village, Carrying Place was in the running to
be the capital of Ontario. Before the Murray Canal opened a passage for
ships in 1889, travelers from Kingston to York knew the spot well.
Long before the white man, Indians portaged the seven miles stretch and
gave the place its name. Carrying Place is still a milestone for travelers as they cross the canal that makes the County an island.

Rednersville is named after the Redner family, who settled in Prince Edward County in 1798. In its heart is one of the oldest country store buildings in Ontario, which for more than a century was continuously operated by members of the Redner family, including James Redner, a United Empire Loyalist. With business interests in shipping and merchandising, the Redner family were a significant entrepreneurial force in Prince Edward County.
Their general store was the hub of a thriving pioneer community.
Its strategic position on the Bay of Quinte eventually led to prosperity,
and Rednersville’s location is still its fortune. Today, this historic building
has been restored to its original beauty, and stands as one of the finest
examples of rural commercial architecture in the area.

Rednersville Road is without a doubt, one of the most beautiful country roads to travel. The shoreline boasts many of Prince Edward County's finest waterfront residences. What make many of the area homes remarkable are the fine landscaping and the abundant natural growth on both sides of Rednersville Road, along whith great views across the bay. Naturally, the area is home to many creative and entrepreneurial people. As Rednersville Road follows the shoreline, it is dotted with roadside shops, artists' galleries, and orchards.

Sophiasburgh was the original "Sixth Town" in Upper Canada and was the last township in the County to be settled. Northport, settled in the late 1780s, was one of Sophiasburgh’s most important communities. Northport had about half the population of the shoreline known as "Marsh Front," where schooners loaded barley, hops and lumber. The northernmost port in the County boasted the first cement dock between Hamilton and Montreal. Six steamers a day would dock there carrying passengers and freight to and from Kingston, Oswego and Montreal. Northport is now a quiet hamlet. Northport attracts holidaymakers to its cottages and B&Bs, and the quiet surroundings, which is ideal for retreats.

In the early 1800s Demorestville was a rowdy place with seven taverns and boasted to have the biblical nickname of “Sodom.” Eventually the lumberman’s town became a respectable village with mills powered by waterfalls, three hotels and thriving businesses. As you enter Demorestville, on the right is a conservation area with picnic tables and hiking trails. This hamlet, named after Guillaume de Morest, a French Huguenot descendant, was a thriving community in the 1840s, bustling with activity and supporting a population of 400 persons.
A series of mills were built along the creek from Fish Lake to the Bay of Quinte. In addition to several mills, de Morest built a church, which he turned over to the Methodist faith.
Demorestville Dam Area and reservoir, located in the hamlet of Demorestville, maintains the ground water table for the community. There are also hiking trails on the property.