by Margaret Clause from Don Brown's book "Down Memory Lane"

Upon the construction of highway Six, known formerly as the Plank Road, a small village popped up around 1855 when Charles and David Hager bought most of the land in the center of the area. David Almas owned the land on the east side of the road, while John Porter owned the land in the West End.

The building of the Canada Southern Railroad in 1870, and of the Hamilton and Lake Erie Railway three years later helped to make Hagersville a prosperous village in 1879.

Close by the rail crossing was ‘The Junction Hotel’ later becoming ‘The Lawson Hotel’ after a change in ownership. Today it is known simply as ‘The Hagersville Inn’.In 1852, Charles Hager built a frame hotel at the corner of the Plank Road and Indian Line. Hagersville’s first post office was in this hotel and Joseph Seymour suggested the community be called Hagersville to honour the Hager Brothers.

The first quarry was built in 1888 and sold to the Beatty brothers. Many of Hagersville’s first Italians worked at the quarry and settled in the West End. Since the late 1950’s, the Canada Crushed Stone Quarry has been long gone. Today the water in the abandoned quarries is forbidden to swimmers and no one has successfully found a method of using it’s resource.

The end of an era which began in 1877 for Northview School was completely in June of 2002 as the institution was closed. Until 1958 the school had been known only as Hagersville Public School, but due to the opening of Parkview, a new 6 room public school, the name Northview was established.

116 years ago, in 1887, James Hewitt started to deliver milk door to door. His family stills runs a Dairy Bar which is famous through-out Ontario.

Don Brown, the author of “Down Memory Lane, A glimpse of Hagersville’s Past” said ‘May we be proud of our village and let us keep Canada strong.’