Received from Don & Fran Cooper
from the Almonte Gazette, Feb. 1936
“Lest We Forget” by J. H. McFarlane – a teacher who taught in Clayton
This article is describing Clayton of the 1890’s.
“One of the little places that have run
Half up a hill beneath the blazing sun
And then sat down to rest as if to say
I climb no further upwards, come what may.”
These words seem to be applicable to the village once known as Bellamy’s Mills which now bears the appellation of Clayton. How old this village is I can not say as I have been unable to have access to the archives. Suffice is to say that it came into existence in the early days of the eighteen hundreds when…
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