Roxbury, Nova Scotia
Roxbury | |
|---|---|
Ghost town | |
  Roxbury | |
| Coordinates: 44°48′48″N 65°10′03″W / 44.8133°N 65.1676°W | |
| Country | Canada |
| Province | Nova Scotia |
| Established | Mid-1800s (approximate) |
| Population | |
• Total | 0 |
Roxbury is a small ghost town outside of Paradise, Nova Scotia.
History
[edit]Legend has it that about sixty of the Acadian settlers took flight up the river and hid on the South Mountain to escape the Expulsion.[1] Their allies, the Mi’kmaq, raced on canoe from Grand-Pré, Nova Scotia to warn them what was coming in 1755.[2][3]
Lost Acadian Gold
[edit]Rumours persist that the fleeing Acadians left stashes of gold under Mile Rock on Roxbury Road,
Development
[edit]The Acadians had expanded the Mi’kmaq toe-path into a lane, and the Loyalists made it a road off what’s now Route 201. By the mid-1800s, it had a population of about 70, with a school, a church and homes. A mill exported lumber to the railway station in Paradise. In the late 1800s Roxbury was a logging community with a population of several dozens, but the community ended after the face of the South Mountain was destroyed by a forest fire in 1903 and the community income was lost.[4]
Cemetery
[edit]- Roxbury Cemetery
- Hinds Family Cemetery
References
[edit]- ^ Halifax Herald,1889
- ^ "Lost in the Woods". davewhitman.ca. Retrieved 29 December 2018.
- ^ "Walpole History of the Acadians in Walpole". www.walpolelibrary.org. Retrieved 29 December 2018.
- ^ Attrie, Jon. "Roxbury". Archived from the original on 2014-04-06. Retrieved 2013-08-21.