First People of Horwood
People first came to Dog Bay (Horwood) from Fogo Island in the mid to late 1800’s. They would come to Horwood in the late fall, and live in “tilts” or log cabins, spend the winter cutting wood to be used for wharves, stages, boat building and firewood which they would pile on the ice in the bay. When spring came the firewood and logs would be loaded unto bully’s, boats smaller than schooner’s, and transported back to communities on Fogo, leaving Dog Bay for the summer months. The first people to maintain permanent residence were William Cull, John Blakey, Henry Wells and their families who arrived in the 1890s. The first person to move to Dog north (now Stoneville) was Robert Hodder from Fogo. First person born was Pamela Simms, born to Nancy Simms and fathered by an English Naval Officer Jeremiah Coughlan around 1776.