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This photograph was taken from the hill later known as Gordon's Hill, on the southern edge of the community of Amanda, looking north towards Middletown. In 1827, Adam Dickey and his son Samuel built a grist mill in the area that became known as Amanda. It was located at the Amanda canal lock, and in an area that became Crystal Tissue. Samuel Dickey laid out the small village of Amanda, which was named in honor of his mother, Amanda. On the left side of the photograph is the Miami and Erie Canal. By the time this photograph was taken, the canal saw little use, but there is a canal boat just south of the aqueduct that carried canal water over Dicks Creek. Today, parts of the canal just north of this spot are old Verity Parkway/Amanda Road. The coming of the railroad took much of the traffic off the canal. It entered the community at the lower left corner of the photograph, and curved around the right side. Only connecting Hamilton to Middletown, it was built as the Louisville, Cincinnati and Dayton Railroad. Today it is part of the CSX railroad system, providing their entry into Middletown, and to the AK Steel plant. The smokestacks in the distance are part of the Crystal paper mill.</div>
26 April 1908<div style="display: none;">date QS:P571,+1908-04-26T00:00:00Z/11</div>
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