The McCrae House
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The McCrae House |
The McCrae house was built in 1813. Thomas McCrae paid for it with the reward money that he had received at the
capture of Detroit. After the Battle of the
Thames, the Americans used it as their headquarters for the region. In December of 1813, Lt. Henry Medcalf of the Norfolk Militia led a group of men from the Norfolk, Middlesex and Kent militias on a raid that captured the American garrison. This was the first Canadian all-militia act of the war. No professional British soldiers were involved in the incident. |
McCrae family's table |