Picton was originally settled as two villages linked by a shared harbour and divided by a creek that still exists at the head of the bay. Northwest of the creek was home to the merchants with their stores along Main Street and large homes on the graceful backstreets. This section of the community was known as Hallowell, after Benjamin Hallowell, a former customs clerk in Boston who fled the city during the British evacuation in 1776. To the south-east was Delhi, a hamlet dominated by Reverend William Macaulay, an Anglican minister and landowner. Ultimately, the villages merged in 1837 and Macaulay was successful in his campaign to have the new community named after General Sir Thomas Picton, Wellington's second-in-command who fought and died at the Battle of Waterloo. more... See more text