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The village was founded in the early 1820s near the Rouge River, as a small hamlet near a grist and saw mill, a tannery and an inn. The community was originally named Mannheim and Reesorville by the early German settlers, but by 1829, when a new post office was opened, the community was called Markham Village. The Village of Markham incorporated in 1873, brew to a population of 1,100 by 1891. With the coming of the railway in the 1870s, many new industries began to flourish. Among them was the Speight Wagon Works, one of the most successful manufacturers of its type before the advent of the automobile.
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