Description Cramahe Township was established in 1792.
There is an observation deck on top of the apple, a restaurant and a store to buy all your apple treats.. 6 meters (38 feet) - the largest apple in the world. 7 meters (35 feet) tall and has a diameter of 11.
The Big Apple is 10.
Colborne is the home of the Big Apple, a tourist attraction located along Highway 401.
In 2001, Colborne and Cramahe Township were amalgamated as part of municipal restructuring to form an expanded Township of Cramahe.
The arrival of the Grand Trunk Railway in 1856, spurred further growth.
By 1846, it contained a foundry, a pottery, six stores, three churches, tradesmen and artisans, and about four hundred residents.
With the establishment of a harbor nearby for the shipment of lumber and grain, Colborne prospered.
Colborne was named after Lieutenant Governor Sir John Colborne.
Within ten years, a distillery and a blacksmith\'s shop had been erected.
A store established in Colborne in about 1819 by Joseph Keeler provided the nucleus around which a small community began to develop.
Keeler, his son Joseph Abbott Keeler (1788-1855) and his grandson Joseph Keeler (1824-1881) were instrumental in establishing the settlements at Lakeport, Colborne and Castleton.
Joseph Keeler (1770-1839) was the first settler who landed on the shores of Cramahe Township with forty United Empire Loyalist families from Rutland, Vermont.
He had the village surveyed, laid out the public square and donated the land.
Joseph Abbott Keeler, son of the first settler of Cramahe Township, founded the village of Colborne in 1815 when he opened the first store and post office.
Description Cramahe Township was established in 1792
