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Main Street 1919

LEFT
Fusilier in 1919.
BELOW  A long shot from 1914.

Thomas Mchaffies store Fusilier 1914

ABOVE LEFT  Thomas McHaffie's General Store in 1919.

BELOW  Unidentified local boy pumping water from the town's old pump and the Fusilier school, all from about 1919.

Child The school 1919
The schoolhouse

BELOW RIGHT  Fusilier in 1923, with its three original grain elevators towering over the townsite.

Sod plant 1927 Fusilier 1923

ABOVE LEFT  The Sodium Sulfate Plant opened in 1920 and closed for good in 1938. There were a number of buildings including a house for the foreman, a large building for drying the sodium sulphate, a rooming house for 40 men, a cook house and a blacksmith shop.

 

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