GPS Coordinates: 44°28′43″N 81°08′44″WTara, Ontario Canada Municipality Arran-Elderslie, Bruce County
Richard Berford and John Hamilton were the first settlers thus breaking ground for the village of Tara,Ontario. They, in the fall of 1851, came into the unbroken forest, which covered the township, and located on the farm lots afterward to be surveyed into a village. [Richard Berford took up lots 31 and 32, and John Hamilton lots 29 and 30, concession 8, Arran.] It is not to be imagined that the village commenced to take form at once; the evolving of a business centre in a township not fully settled until some years later required time. The fact that Tara is situated about half way between Owen Sound and Southampton, on the road opened out in 1852, had much to do with the developing of a village there.
