A Middle Iroquoian settlement existed on the west bank of a tributary of the Little Rouge Creek in the fourteenth century in the area which is today called Box Grove.

[2] In 1815, William Beebe was the first European settler in this area; Sparta or Sparty-Wharf (Box Grove in 1867) was registered as a hamlet in 1850.

[3] In 1867 the hamlet had "a Church, a schoolhouse, two taverns, woolen mill, sawmill, a store, a blacksmith and two axe-makers shops capable of supplying the whole country with axes and augurs on short notice.

In 1950 the Box Grove Golf course was built by businessman Nelson Davis on the Tomlinson property which included a portion of the Rouge River valley where their mills were located.

One of the Tomlinsons was buried on the site and the golf course was built leaving the grave and headstone intact.

The Tomlinson grave was moved to the Box Grove Church graveyard and the original gravesite now on the south side of Legacy Drive is marked with a stone monument.

The current post office is located inside the Rexall pharmacy at Ninth Line and Copper Creek Drive.

Within Box Grove there are two distinct residential developments (neighborhoods) built from the former IBM Canada Golf Course, but are not historically considered as communities: Most commuters in the area travel by car as bus service is infrequent and slow.

Renovated with two additions to the original school house, it has 2 rooms and home a co-operative day care centre.