Laurel Creek Bridgeport Mill Ruin, Kitchener ON Canada
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Abstract
On January 12, 2021, we photographed the Bridgeport Mill ruins following several days of heavy rain, amounting to 100 mm. This resulted in the highest January rainfall on record in Waterloo Region, according to the Grand River Conservation Authority. Only six empty storage silos and a graffiti-covered derelict building remain of the five storey mill, built in 1829 by Bridgeport's founder, Jacob Shoemaker. The mill burned down in October 1970; its six storey, eighteen metre concrete elevator shaft remains a local landmark where it stands near its former dam on Laurel Creek, a half-kilometre upstream from its Grand River confluence near the iconic 1934 bowstring arch Bridgeport bridge. The mill was the northern terminus of a Grand Trunk Railway (later, CNR) industrial spur branching off from the main line at the Lancaster Street rail yard. A rail crossing on Lancaster Street West, near the former Lancaster Hotel (today's Lancaster Smokehouse) led to a rail bridge over Laurel Creek at Woolwich Street (today's Shirk Place). Jacob Shoemaker also built a dam, creating a creek-fed millpond, extending upstream toward today's Springdale Green, which supplied the mill with water power. His circa 1840 heritage house, across the street at 38 Shirk Place, still stands. In 1849, he sold the mill to Elias Eby, who in turn sold Lancaster Mills, as it was then called, to Peter Shirk and Samuel Snyder in 1869. Renamed the Shirk and Snyder Mill, they jointly operated the flour mill until Snyder's retirement in 1887, when Peter Shirk became its sole proprietor, also operating a Baden flour mill in Wilmot Township, with a combined daily flour production of 250 barrels. After Peter's death in Bridgeport in October, 1919, his family continued to operate the Bridgeport mill until selling it to the Waterloo County Co-Operative in 1949. In its last years, the Co-Op mill produced animal feed for the local farm market.
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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) | 0.312 | 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".