Frelighsburg is a

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in the

Estrie Estrie () is an administrative region of Quebec that comprises the Eastern Townships. ''Estrie'', a French neologism, was coined as a derivative of ''est'', "east". Originally settled by anglophones, today it is about 90 per cent francophone. Angl ...

region of southern

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, Canada, on the border with

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. It is at the foot of

Mount Pinnacle The Pinnacle (french: Le Pinacle) is a mountain in Frelighsburg, Quebec, Canada. The mountain has an elevation of and covers an area of . The Pinnacle was originally inhabited by the Abenaki tribe and is considered one of the few remaining unspo ...

, part of the

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. Administratively, it is within the

Brome-Missisquoi Regional County Municipality Brome-Missisquoi is a regional county municipality in the Estrie region of Quebec, Canada. It lies in the Eastern Townships area. The seat is Cowansville. In 2021, it was transferred to the Estrie region from Montérégie. In Parliament it is cov ...

, in the

. Its population, as of the

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, was 1,123.

History

Frelighsburg is on land that was originally inhabited by the

Abenaki The Abenaki (Abenaki: ''Wαpánahki'') are an Indigenous peoples of the Northeastern Woodlands of Canada and the United States. They are an Algonquian-speaking people and part of the Wabanaki Confederacy. The Eastern Abenaki language was predom ...

. It was established as a colony in the late 1790s by

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s, including pioneer Abram Freligh, a physician of

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origin who lived in Clinton,

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. The sawmill built by his son in 1839, and several other buildings from the 19th century are considered historical monuments. Prior to being named Frelighsburgh it was named Conroy's Mills, named after another mill owner, and Slab City because of the great quantities of

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and slabs (

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for bark) that were there.http://www.toponymie.gouv.qc.ca/ct/ToposWeb/fiche.aspx?no_seq=148987 Frelighsburg - Commission de toponymie du Québec

Geography

Frelighsburg is less than from the Canada–US border with

, nestled in a valley of

orchard An orchard is an intentional plantation of trees or shrubs that is maintained for food production. Orchards comprise fruit- or nut-producing trees which are generally grown for commercial production. Orchards are also sometimes a feature of larg ...

s crossed by the Pike River and at the foot of

Demographics

Infrastructure

Frelighsburg is crossed by the Route 237. Route 213 starts in Frelighsburgh.

Gallery

File:Frelighsburg-Townhall.jpg, Frelighsburg Town Hall File:Frelighsburg-chutes Hunter.jpg, Hunter Falls File:Frelighsburg-Ecole St-François Assise.jpg, Ecole Saint-François d'Assise File:ORCHARD 2020.jpg, Orchard - Maison d'époque.

References

External links

Municipality of Frelighsburg - Official Site
* {{Authority control Municipalities in Quebec Incorporated places in Brome-Missisquoi Regional County Municipality Designated places in Quebec