Port Glasgow Memorial Park

The former Soldiers’ and Pioneers’ Memorial Park was opened in 1920 and was for many years the scene of an annual reunion of residents of what was the Township of Aldborough.
The site was near the landing point of the earliest of the settlers to this area, called Cnoc Nealliadh(Gaelic for Nelly’s Hill)by the highlanders who arrived here first starting in 1818. Today the entrance to the former park is marked by the original gates and a cairn as well as two mill stones that survived from the first mill built by Col. Talbot at Port Talbot in 1805 and burned by the Americans during the War of 1812.