The Loyalist Landing Place
1784
In the park on Highway 33, Adolphustown (UEL Heritage Centre & Park). The plaque is at the tree line west of the burying ground.
Commemoration
On June 16, 1784, a party of some 250 United Empire Loyalists landed from bateaux near this site and established the first permanent white settlement in Adolphustown Township. They had sailed from New York in the fall of 1783 under the leadership of Major Peter Van Alstine (1743-1800), a Loyalist of Dutch ancestry, and passed the winter at Sorel. Van Alstine was later appointed a justice of the peace, represented this area in the first Legislative Assembly of Upper Canada and built at Glenora the earliest grist-mill in Prince Edward County.
Background
Van Alstine was born in New York in 1743. Many of the people he helped settle here were Quakers as was he. He had a mill in Glenora which is still standing.