Princeton, Ontario

Princeton
Location of Princeton in Ontario

Princeton is a community in Blandford-Blenheim, which is part of Oxford County, Ontario, Canada. .

In 1978, archaeologists excavated the site in Princeton of an 800-year-old Amerindian village of the Glen Meyer tribe.

The Princeton Public Library is a branch of the Oxford Public Library . Princeton also has 3 churches, 1 community park (parking off of Elgin ST west), a museum (in the same building as the public library located at 25 main st S), a community Centre (35 main st S), a post office (24 main st N) and has multiple small businesses

The population is about 500 people.

Thomas Leopold "Carbide" Willson, who invented an economical method of mass-producing calcium carbide, was born on a farm near Princeton, Ontario, in 1860.

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