Adolphustown

The settlement was named for Prince Adolphus, Duke of Cambridge, seventh son of King George III.

A number of Quakers settled in this area in 1784 and held their first Monthly Meetings in Canada here.

The ferry is free for vehicles and pedestrians and links the western and eastern halves of one of the oldest colonial roads in the province, the Loyalist Parkway (Ontario Highway 33), at the point where the parkway is interrupted by the Bay of Quinte.

This crossing appears to have been in use at least as early as 1802, when an extension of Asa Danforth Jr.'s pioneering road, from eastern Toronto through what is now Trenton, first reached the Bay of Quinte at Stone Mills (Glenora).

[3] Other development—such as the 1817 York Road, the 1856 Grand Trunk Railway[contradictory], and 1964 segment of Highway 401—took a more northern route through Napanee-Belleville.