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Cobourg 1798

black and white sketch of a homesteader standing in a small field pointing to a sailboat on a lake while looking towards a woman with a basket standing in the doorway of a log cabin. In the foreground are stumps of trees and a pile of rocks.

Cobourg 1798, Frank C. Taylor

Credit: Cobourg 1798-1948, Edwin C. Guillet, Goodfellow Printing Company, 1948

1798 is the year attributed by Edwin Guillet, in his book Cobourg 1798-1948, to the arrival of Eliud Nickerson, believed to have been the first inhabitant of Cobourg.  The original location of his log hut was well chosen as it was very near the current business centre of town, King and Division Streets.