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The town of Leamington Spa, originally known as Leamington Priors was a tiny village until about The value of the mineral springs was known in the middle ages, but it was not until that the small village began rediscovering its saline springs and started building baths around some of them.

Plans were made to build a bathing establishment on a scale surpassing anything yet attempted. A syndicate was formed to provide the necessary funds. A company was formed to buy the land on the west side of the Parade for building purposes. However, attempts to discover a reliable source of saline water in this vicinity were unsuccessful. Eventually in a spring was discovered on land owned by Mr Greatheed — a member of the syndicate — on the north side of the river, but only a stones-throw away from the old town.

The Spa water is a mild laxative which is one reason why the water was drunk. A bandstand was erected and military bands played in the evening during the summer for the gratification of the subscribers.

Early French voyageurs and missionaries first began exploring Leamington and Mersea Township in the 17th Century. Point Pelee was a prominent landfall for these early travellers. Mersea Township was surveyed in Except for a few military posts in the Amherstburg area, Essex County was largely unknown. In , all the land west of what is now Highway 77 was dense forest, broken only by a small clearing on the Ridge.

Like most settlers, they had acquired this land from Colonel Thomas Talbot, the eccentric Irishman who laid out Talbot Road along an old Indian trail. Leamington had its beginnings at the same time when Alex Wilkinson started a farm on both sides of the Mersea Sideroad Erie Street.

Three years later, Leonard Wigle opened the first tavern in the district and its fame spread rapidly. Up to this point, farmers had been forced to travel long distances over uncertain roads to get their grain to a mill. Isaac Russell and John Coatsworth remedied this problem by building a grist mill along Hillman Creek. A saw mill was later added.

A post office was added in , and given the name of Gainesborough. Because this name duplicated another post office name, the government suggested a change and Mr. Gaines chose Leamington, the name of his home town in England. Pedal Power comes to Leamington!

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We also have a thriving commercial and manufacturing sector with land available for future growth and development. With all the recreation options, clubs, organizations, housing choices, retail and professional services, community supports and so many other fabulous features, Leamington is a dream community.

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