Early Days in Richmond Hill: A History of the Community to 1930 : electronic edition. : Rails through Richmond Hill

Chapter 10 Rails through Richmond Hill

Table of Contents

	Title Page
	Author's Preface
1	The Road through Richmond Hill
2	First Peoples on the Land
3	The European Settlers Arrive
4	From Miles' Hill to Richmond Hill: The Birth of a Community
5	Tories and Reformers
6	Stagecoach Lines and Railway Tracks
7	The Neighbours at Mid-Century
8	Fire Brigades and Fence Viewers
9	Picture Post Card Village of the 1880s and 1890s
10	Rails through Richmond Hill
	The Radial Railway Arrives
	A Ride on the Big Green Cars
	Stops along the Line
	Bond Lake Park
	Through the Highlands of York to Bond Lake Park
	Radial Days in Richmond Hill
	Summer Romance at Bond Lake Park
	Electrical News at the Turn of the Century
	Electric Lights for the Village
	Steam!
	Heritage sites in New Gormley
	" Gormley Gleanings"
	The Belated Arrival of the Age of Steam
11	The Flowering of Richmond Hill
12	The Village Transformed
	Epilogue
	Appendices
	Table of Illustrations
	Index

Heritage sites in New Gormley.Richmond Hill Local Architectural Conservation Advisory Committee

1. Joseph Mannock House, relocated c 1907

2. Jeremiah Lyons House, c 1909

3. Elizabeth Reaman House, 1916

4. John Leary House, 1909

5. John Forrester House, 1909

6. Thomas S. Doner House, c 1908

7. Daniel H. Doner House, c 1906

8. Blacksmith Shop

9. David W. & Jacob A. Heise House,c 1908

10. Gormley Station Site, 1907

11. Station House, c 1910

12. David Heise House, c 1908

13. Cober Store, 1912

14. Eva May Thompson House, relocated 1908

15. William Bestard House, c 1909

16. George W. Baker House, 1908

17. North American Cement Block & Tile Co., c 1907

18. Skating Rink Changeroom, c 1930s

19. George T. Hilts House, 1922

20. James Hunt House, 1921

21. John Sider House, 1921

22. Alfred Brillinger House, 1921

23. Joseph Farmer House, 1919

24. Samuel Bakre Jr. House c 1858, relocated 1978

25. Clarence E. Heise House, c 1926

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