Spencerville is a rural community located in Eastern Ontario, within Edwardsburgh/Cardinal township in the United Counties of Leeds and Grenville.

Spencer's father built the first mill there in 1811 which inspired further settlement, and a village gradually grew surrounding the property.

Spencerville is a historical village with many old houses, churches, farms, cemeteries, and other buildings dating back to the 1800s.

Spencerville was first settled at the start of the 1800s when a man named Peleg Spencer established a mill along the South Nation River in 1811, which a village subsequently grew around.

In 1831, David Spencer, the son of Peleg, became the owner of the mills and is generally credited as being the founder of the village.

By the 1850s, Spencerville had a population of around 250 individuals and numerous pioneer tradespeople and businesses were operating from the village as well as 2 churches, a school, and a post office.

[3] In the 1850s, the Bytown and Prescott Railway was laid through the village, which led to the construction of a train station.

[4] A third church was constructed in the 1880s, and around the 1890s new businesses included a bakery, millinery, a harness shop, dressmaker, a pharmacy, and a cheese factory.

For secondary education, students in the area commute to high schools in nearby Kemptville or Prescott.

As overcrowding was still a concern, some elementary students attended classes in the old town hall until a fire destroyed the building in 1948.

Centennial ’67 Public School was constructed in 1967 along Henderson Street, off of County Road 44.

The rectangular, brick school has multiple classrooms and was a modern replacement for the one-room schoolhouses in the village and the surrounding area.

Prior to the construction of St. Laurence O’Toole Church, Spencerville's Roman Catholic congregation was served by the Prescott parish.

The first Methodist church was located where the masonic lodge currently sits and was built around 1845 for the Wesleyan-Methodist congregation.

[11] One of the most notable pieces of architecture in the village of Spencerville is the stone mill, located along the South Nation River.

By the 1850s, David Spencer began to expand his operation, adding a carding and fulling mill to the north bank of the river.

David Spencer, who was apparently in poor health, was both unable and unwilling to rebuild the mills and sold the property to his daughter in 1862.

Around 1864 a man named Robert Fairbairn, the son-in-law of David Spencer, rebuilt the stone grist mill.

[12] In the 1950s, a store operated from the mill selling farm supplies such as fertilizer or grain, as well as hardware.

[13] As of the 2000s, the fair has a parade, a midway, and an entertainment tent which serves as an outdoor bar and concert venue.

Ernest Michael McSorley, last captain of the ill-fated laker-type freighter SS Edmund Fitzgerald, born in Spencerville September 29, 1912.