| Summary: | CALEDONIA TOWN AND TOWNSHIP SQUATTING ON THE GOOSE (To the tune of "Scots wha Hae.") by Michael O'Flaherty, a local poet. If by thieves and doctors bled, Half your blood and cash has fled, Gather up your stove and bed, And settle on the Goose. Take the girl whose many charms, Have won your heart in willing arms, And find your children future farms, By squatting on the Goose. Though Adam took his wife 's advice, And got expelled from Paradise, You '11 find another just as nice, By squatting on the Goose. CALEDONIA TOWNSHIP : 146 h TTTES Since Caledonia preceded Hillsboro by a few years, it had considerable influence on the town. In 1870 Walter Traill, chief clerk of Hudson Bay Company, and George Weston took up claims at the mouth of the Goose River. Asa Sargeant was in charge of the Hudson Bay Company, known as the Goose River Post. He had come from Caledonia County, Vermont. The Hudson Bay Company set up a provision and supply store at the Caledonia site in 1871, and is also credited with opening the "American House" hotel managed by Sargeant. The Company brought in a horse powered threshing machine and built the first water power mill on the Goose River. This made Caledonia a grain market, a steamboat site and a milling center, a marketplace for grain, flower and feed. Caledonia Roller Mill and dam. Louisa Vettel McDonald sitting on the river bank. (Grace Cotton's mother). Asa Sargeant Farm, present home of Richard Vettel. Sold to George Vettel in 1908. Old Mill at Caledonia, flood of 1897. 69 Scanned with a Zeutschel Zeta book scanner at 300 dpi. Edited with Multi-Page TIFF Editor.
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