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Newmarket Ontario may best be known as the birthplace of famous actor/comedian Jim Carrey, but its history dates all the way back to the year 1800. In June of that year, a Vermont Quaker named Timothy Rogers traveled to the area surrounding Holland's Landing towards Lake Simcoe, looking for an appropriate place for a new Quaker settlement. Because of the anticipated violence from the American Revolution, several Pennsylvania and Vermont-based Quaker families wanted to move north to get away from the unrest, and did so with Timothy Rogers in 1801. The first mill and mill pond were constructed by Joseph Hill on the Holland River by December 1801; that pond is now known as Fairy Lake. From there, the town began to grow under the name "Upper Yonge St.", and Hill built more mills, a tannery, the first house, and the first store. A market was held in what's now known as the present-day downtown area, and that gave the town its name "Newmarket". Incorporated as a village in 1857, Newmarket

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