Roxbury, Nova Scotia
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Roxbury is a small ghost town outside of Paradise, Nova Scotia.
History[]
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[]
Rumours persist that the fleeing Acadians left stashes of gold under Mile Rock on Roxbury Road,
Development[]
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]
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Cemetery[]
- Roxbury Cemetery
- Hinds Family Cemetery
References[]
- ^ 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.
- Ghost towns in Nova Scotia