There were many mills throughout the township. The most notable name today brings to mind a popular spot – Hilton Falls.
Edward Hilton built a sawmill on lot 8, in the 5th Concession. This mill was supposed to have been built about 1835, at a place where the creek runs over the crest of the mountain into a gorge over forty feet deep, and has been known as Hilton Falls ever since. The bulkhead was made by scooping out a tree in the shape like a trough, the open side covered by a slab, then setting this on its end into the gorge. It carried the water to the wheel about 40ft down, the wheel was as an old-fashioned flutter wheel.
The county of Halton was organized into a county in 1853; there were no towns in the county with a population large enough to be named. Milton and Oakville were the first to be named in 1857, Georgetown in 1865, and Burlington and Acton in 1875.
