Garafraxa

Garafraxa lies in the wooded country north of the Grand River, where the origins of the place name have attracted several explanations. The township was opened to settlement in the 1820s. Among those granted land were Richard Pierpoint, a Black veteran of the War of 1812, and other Black families. In 1833 settlers travelling through Garafraxa and Eramosa reached a site on the Grand River that became Fergus, adding another settlement to the country being opened along the river.