OMAH - History Speaker Series
OMAH History Speaker Series-The Black Swamp Gang
Around 1880 the whole of North Simcoe County was terrorized by The Black Swamp Gang who robbed farms and then intimidated the farmers into silence through barn-burnings and other threatened vandalism. The gang had formed around Big Sandy McDuff, a gigantic and temperamental Jarratt farmer-a tavern brawler who never lost a fight.