Black's Corners, a hamlet south of Carleton Place, is the location for the town hall of Beckwith.

This site was chosen in 1857 as a compromise between Franktown and Carleton Place where the township council had met on an alternating basis previously.

On the ninth Line Road, east of Blacks Corners, Beckwith Park is being developed.

The extensive grass area includes twelve soccer pitches, a baseball and a softball field, a coverall building and open space to hold civic events like Beckwith Heritage Days.

Within the town of Carleton Place, along the rapids of Mississippi River, there is a large and regionally significant hackberry forest.

These clay deposits were left behind by the Champlain Sea which flooded the Beckwith area about ten thousand years ago at the end of the last ice age.