Business card reading: Anglo-American, Front Street, Belleville George Hoggard, Proprietor Strict Attention Given to Travellers The Best $1.00 a Day House in the City. Street Cars pass the Door every 15 Minutes. Stages Call for All Parts.
File contains original petition to incorporate Mill Point into an "Incorporated Village" 17 May1871, signed by Edward Wilkes Rathbun and 100 residents of the village. There are also petitions of protest from residents north of the York Road [Highway 2] who did not want to be part of the village. File also includes a plan of the proposed boundaries Mill Point (Map M440-1446).