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Adeyton
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Adeyton is a small unincorporated community located on the Northwest Arm of Trinity Bay, just south of Clarenville in Newfoundland, Canada. Adeyton (formerly called Lee Bight), like Deep Bight, Piston Mere, Maggoty Cove and Forster's, was founded in the 1850s and 1860s as a small logging operation and, with the building of the Newfoundland Railway, it grew as the demand for lumber was at a peak.
Edward and Pasco Adey came to Lee Bight c.1865 from Hant's Harbour with the intention of logging. Lee Bight had all of the natural requirements for a logging operation, a nearby timber stand sufficient to support a water powered sawmill from a nearby fast flowing brook and clear access to the sea to ship the sawn lumber.
By 1870 a water powered sawmill had been built, one of several in the Northwest Arm at the time. It was estimated that there were in excess of 150 water wheel sawmills in Newfoundland. As of September 13th 1966 the Adeyton Post Office closed.
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