Athens (2016 Population 3,013)[1] is a township in the United Counties of Leeds and Grenville in Eastern Ontario, Canada.

Formerly known as Farmersville, Benoni Wiltse, a United Empire Loyalist, and his brothers settled in the town of Athens in 1792.

[2] Currently, the town of Athens is known for a series of large outdoor murals depicting historical local life, painted on the sides of various buildings.

This fair celebrates the agricultural heritage of the town, and includes steam engines and antique tractors.

Beales Mills, Ontario is a small settlement located southwest of the town of Athens, close to Charleston.

[7] Wiltse Pioneer Cemetery holds close to 300 interments, most of which are unmarked or marked by field stones instead of engraved tombstones.

[9] Over one hundred graves are located here, of those who lived at the House of Industry between the aforementioned years and whose bodies remained unclaimed after death.

[9] The mass grave became abandoned in 1946 when the House of Industry came under new management, who deemed the burial practices being used as undignified.

A cooperative effort between local genealogical societies has recently discovered the approximate boundaries of the burial plot by dowsing for grave sites.