Old Doon Mills Ruins, Kitchener ON Canada
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Abstract
Doon Mills was built by Scottish immigrant Adam Ferrie Jr (1813-1848), Doon village’s founder, who arrived in Hamilton in 1930 from Glasgow. In 1832, he moved to Preston (Cambridge) and, in partnership with Thomas Mackenzie, opened a general merchandising and forwarding branch of Adam Ferrie Sr’s Montreal business, along with a blacksmith shop, barn and tavern, but he failed to obtain water rights for a gristmill on the Grand River from John Erb, Preston’s founder. In 1834, he purchased 300 acres from John Biehn (1813-1898) on Schneider Creek near its confluence with the Grand River. John was the son of Johannes Biehn and Barbara Fried, Pennsylvania-Germans who emigrated from Montgomery County in 1800 and settled in Doon. Ferrie cleared 100 acres and then impounded the creek behind a substantial stone dam to supply his 1839 self-designed four storey stone gristmill. His 1834 homestead (presently Homer Watson Gallery, 1754 Old Mill Road, Kitchener) is located near the dam and was his home with wife Jane (nee Slipper, 1817-1891) and three children. The mill, operating as Adam Ferrie & Company (until his 1848 death),produced oatmeal, ground barley and flour. With financial support from his family, Adam Jr built a tavern, general store, distillery, sawmill and cooperage, in addition to the gristmill, within a thriving hamlet known as Lower Doon. In 1840, the dam burst, destroying several buildings including the distillery, which was subsequently rebuilt. When Adam contracted tuberculosis in 1847, his older brother Robert assumed management of the mill complex. In 1848, Adam succumbed to his illness in Preston, age 36, and was buried in Galt (Cambridge). Doon grew to 1851 census count of 452. In 1869, the mill complex, store and Ferrie home were sold to George Patterson of nearby Galt. Noted painter Homer Watson (1855-1936), who was born in nearby Upper Doon, purchased the former Ferrie residence in 1883. The mill was then sold to Jacob Detweiler in 1874, A. B. Snider in 1884 and Charles Cluthe in 1893, who operated it as a shoddy mill for mattresses, a cider mill, and to make scissors and cutlery. James Huber leased the mill from Cluthe as a glue factory. The mill building burned in 1898, was partly repaired, then totally destroyed by fire in 1913, leaving a stone shell. In the 1920s, Willow Lake was developed by Lawrence (Sr) and Bertha Cluthe for recreation. It featured a diving tower, sandy beach, concession stand and rental cottages, and was popular for boating, swimming and skating. A storm flood washed out the dam in 1968, draining the lake. The Grand River Conservation Authority demolished the ruins in 1981, preserving a few stabilized remnants of the structure. Willow Park now occupies the former lake bed.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.689 | 0.001 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; both teacher heads agree on what is shown here.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".