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Places
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Looking west along
Carrville Road
in the nineteenth century. |
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Gas street lamp in front of the
Palmer family
home, installed in 1892 and maintained by village lamplighter
James
Brownlee. |
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The Coon house in Oak
Ridges, north of King Sideroad. This house, originally owned by the Hughey
family, was built in the mid-19th century. |
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The
Trench
Carriage Works,Richmond Hill's
largest employer during the 1870s. |
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Trench's
Carriage Works with employees |
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A wagon made at
Trench's
Carriage Works. |
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A wagon made at
Trench's
Carriage Works. |
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Wagon manufactured by the
Trench
Carriage Works. |
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Newton
Tanning Company at
Elgin Mills.
Located on the sideroad west of
Yonge Street
behind the blacksmith shop on the northwest corner. It was a major employer of
Richmond Hill
labour in the later decades of the nineteenth century. |
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Employees of the
Newton
Tanning Company in 1898. Back row, left to right, are: --,
N. Garness,,
Geo Sims, Sr.,S. Kirkland,Bertram
Newton, --,
- Garbutt, --,
George Hopper,
and
Tom Newton. Front
row:
Dave Mckenzie,
--,
J Brydon,A. Hamilton, --,
F. Dolen, --,
Andrew Newton,C. Skeele,W. Naughton, --,
--, --,
J. Naughton, and
N. Naughton.
Sitting:
L. McLeod,F.
Grainger. |
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The chimney of the
Newton
Tanning Company. |
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Routledge's blacksmith shop at
Oak Ridges, with
Walter Mortson
in front. |
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T.H. Legge &
Sons, General Merchants,
Temperanceville |
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In 1880, village council moved its meeting room from
the
Robin Hood
Hotel to the second floor of the new
Palmer Block,
pictured on the right, at the northwest corner of Yonge and
Arnold streets.
The
fire engine
house was located on the north end of this building. |
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Waiting for the stagecoach at the
Dominion House
(formerly
Dalby's
Tavern), a mainstay of
Richmond Hill's
nineteenth-century hospitality industry. The
Dominion House
was located on the east side of
Yonge Street,
south of the
Trench
Carriage Works. |
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Team of horses and wagon at the
Langstaff
Toll-gate, today's
Yonge Street and
Highway 7
intersection. For many years this
toll-gate
was operated by
Henry Richards
and his son
Henry,
Jr. |
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An early Langstaff family
residence at
Langstaff. |
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The
Innes sawmill
after the 1894 fire. |
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Richmond
Hill High School in its 1897 building at Yonge and
Wright streets,
later part of the municipal building of the Town of
Richmond
Hill. |
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Richmond Hill Presbyterian Church and Manse. |
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Richmond Hill Presbyterian Church and Manse. |
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St. Mary Immaculate Roman Catholic Church, original
structure built in November 1857; this building erected in 1894. |
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Interior of
St. Mary Immaculate Roman Catholic Church, 1894 |
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