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Freyvogel was induced to move into the Huron Tract by the Canada Company, who wanted to establish three taverns in the newly surveyed tract of land. The company offered a bonus of $40, $50 and $60 to the three who would start and keep a tavern for six months from the beginning of the year 1830, at certain places designated by the Company. The surveyors of the Canada Company had already erected log cabins for the purpose.

Freyvogel accepted the bonus and moved into the South Easthope shack, the nearest one to civilization, on Christmas Day 1828. There he stayed until he died in 1873.

Freyvogel ran the Fryfogel Inn (the anglicized version of his name) which became a favourite stopping place for travellers and persons settling in the Huron Tract.

A commemorative cairn marks the place of the original log cabin as well as the opening of Huron Road (now Highway 7/8). The plaque reads:

The adjacent Fryfogel Inn has an Ontario Historic Plaque which also describes the history of this site.

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