Ingersoll

Ingersoll is a metropolis in Oxford County on the Thames River in southwestern Ontario, Canada. The nearest towns are Woodstock to the east and London to the west.Ingersoll is located north of and along Highway 401. Oxford County Road 119 runs north diagonally thru the town. A Canadian National rail line bisects the town east to west thru its middle. Passenger carrier from the Ingersoll train station is supplied to different stops in Southwestern Ontario via Via Rail. To the south is a CPR line, with spurs into neighborhood industries, which provides freight carrier to factors within the area.

The neighborhood excessive faculty is Ingersoll District Collegiate Institute. The Ingersoll region turned into first settled inside the 1790s by way of families from New England, became famous for domestic-made cheese production before the War of 1812, and its surrounding County of Oxford was domestic to the primary cheese factories in Canada, starting in 1864. In 1866, through collaboration with the aid of the town's businessmen, a giant wheel of cheese weighing 7,300 pounds was produced on the James Harris Cheese Factory just south of Ingersoll, for promotion of the vicinity's cheese enterprise.

The "Mammoth Cheese" turned into exhibited at the New York State Fair in Saratoga, NY, after which in England. It become a Eureka! Accomplishment applauded by way of the whole USA, and in 1867 the Canadian Dairymen's Association turned into installed in Ingersoll, attended by using nearly hundred dairymen from across Canada, followed by annual conventions long thereafter. A booming cheese export industry in the hundreds of thousands of kilos grew from Ingersoll to many components of the arena, and the city's call have become synonymous with pleasant products.