This railroad town on the east side of Honey Lake was short-lived. It did have several business partnerships-some remarkable and others not so much.

In the spring of 1892, the boomtown was its peak, there were livery stables. One of these Brubeck & Alexander, and their business arrangement last only one month.

In 1893, the town’s leading merchant, E.C. Brown filed for bankruptcy. L.C. Sexton and Sam Johnstone acquired Brown’s general mercantile store. In 1899, Johnstone bought out Sexton. In 1901, Johnstone and Jacob Hart purchased the Amedee Hotel. In 1903, Hart dissatisfied with Amedee, sold out toJohnstone.

By 1907, Johnstone had enough struggles of doing business at Amedee and he sold Carl Young. Young bought in a partner, George Callahan. Young quickly sold his interest to Callahan and cited that the town was “too dull for him.” Little did Young know that Amedee was on a verge of a revival. The good times would not last and by World War I the town was in a rapid decline.

Tim