New Hamburg was established in the early 1830s by William Scott. In 1834, cholera killed many of the original settlers of New Hamburg. A grist-mill built by Josiah Cushman about 1834 formed the nucleus around which a small community of Amish Mennonites and recent German immigrants developed. More German and Scottish settlers arrived in the late 1830s and early 1840s. The Grand Trunk railway arrived in the 1850s and the village became an important centre for milling and the production of farm machinery.HaysvilleHaysville, where the historic Huron Road crossed the Nith River, was settled by immigrants from the British Islea in the 1830s. The name Haysville came from its first official postmaster, John Hays, who was appointed in 1853. Before that time it had been called Jonesboro and later Wilmot Village.In 1827, Dr. William 'Tiger' Dunlop of the Canada Company opened the 95-mile corduroy Huron Road which connected the towns of Guelph and Goderich.