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This is a 1940's photo of the Harrington Pond. The Ontario
Foresters Dance Hall is in the background and the peak of the
Harrington Grist Mill is visible on the far left of the photo.
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This is a southern view of the Harrington Pond dating back to the
early 1940's.
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This photo was taken upstream from the original Mill pond dam.
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This picture was taken on Easter Sunday, April 17, 1949.
Earlier that morning the Harrington Mill pond dam collapsed.
People in the village stated that the pond drained in less than
one hour!
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This is what is known as an "oblique" aerial photo, not all that
common in the 1940's. The wheat in the little field is "stooked"
Mennonite style. Wheat was cut either by hand, scyle or mower
pulled behind a horse or tractor. No tracks are visible in this
photo which leads us to assume it was horse drawn. If it was done
by hand it would have been done using a cradle scythe to catch the
cuttings. Either way, the stooks were set up by hand, left to dry
out and then taken to the barn for winnowing or run through a
thresher powered by a tractor in the field.
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In this photo dating back to 1952, many people gathered in
Harrington to view the completed Mill Pond Dam.
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These are two very early post cards by "Book Post". These unique
cards show Harrington and its buildings in the early 1900's.
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During the 1800's the Mill pond was known as Sunnyside Pond.
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Another Harrington postcard with a one cent postage stamp on the back.
This card was posted in Harrington and received a stamp in Stratford,
dating January 15, 1907.
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Miller's Residence Hill Family late 1800's
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