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Entire school population of 11 students of S.S. #24 on Highway 11 in the 1930's.
Front Row l-r: John Beke, Mary Beke, Helen Smith, Connie Cook, Rose Speziali
Back Row l-r: Art West, Tom Speziali, John Speziali, Sam Catania, Louis Beke, Irene Beke.

This farmhouse, more than 135 years old, was the home of the tollgate keeper on the Old Amsterdam Toll Road.

Old house, old road east of railroad known as the Durham house in Amsterdam.

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The office for Thompson Smith's Mill, Amsterdam. Robert Collings, Geo. Taylor, Miss Scott, Mrs. W. McKinstry (Ida Collings), Jas. Spence (Seated), Jack Davey (standing), James Scott, Sam Scott, Jack Busby, Tommy Mulligan.

Thompson Smith was a Toronto man who participated in the incorporation the Rama Lumber Transport Co. and who opened up a lumber mill in Amsterdam (near Bradford). The exact date of opening is unknown, but it was sometime between 1858-1869. The mill was a steam mill and many of the logs cut were shipped along the Holland River. Smith's mill was eventually one of many in the area during the late nineteenth century.

The Durham House - built circa 1860. Photographed here circa 1920. It was actually originally two houses joined together.