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1879

The town of Little Bay was on the map in 1879 with a population recently swollen and suddenly lucrative. "Adolph Guzman developed during much of 1879, removing hundreds of tons of ore from the locale to the Little Bay smelters" (Martin). Many of t ...

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1878

The year is 1878 in an area of Newfoundland still known as Indian Bight and the Little Bay mines are just about to start. And due to an act of fortune or foresight the site has a brand new telegraph office already in place, the line extended there e ...