Heidi and Lee spent much of the day huddled inside our Honda driving the scenic route on Route 3 along the southern coast between Yarmouth and Lunenburg. We poked along in the rain (the edges of Hurricane Ophelia) for much of the morning before stopping briefly in Barrington.
Here Heidi was anxious to visit a local museum housed in a Meeting House originally built in 1765, shortly after the arrival of a group of settlers known as Planters. The Planters were migrants from Cape Cod who took up residence in Nova Scotia beginning in 1762 on free land parcels following the expulsion of the Acadians, French pioneers thrown out by the new, militarily triumphant, British rulers of the North American colonies in what is now Canada.
Lemuel Crosby (the first Crosby to live in Nova Scotia) was one of those early Planter settlers arriving in 1762 (as was -- we found yesterday -- Phineas Durkee, ancestor of Eleanor Moses Durkee, who settled in Yarmouth that same year). Unfortunately, the museum was closed and the adjacent graveyard filled largely with deceased members of the Crowell family. Since Lemuel was surely involved in the construction of the Meeting House itself, however, the stop was worth the effort - and we have the photographic evidence to document it!
Having determined by then that it would take several days to reach Lunenburg at our current pace, we shifted to Route 103 which zipped us along much more quickly, first to Shelburne where we stopped for a delicious lunch at the Charlotte Lane Cafe and then for a brief meander through the charming village of Liverpool.
Shelburne was first settled by Loyalists fleeing the Revolutionary War. Liverpool was home to Privateers who terrorized the waters of the Atlantic in the seventeenth, eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, essentially as government licensed pirates. Both villages tout their primary historical associations and are full of some lovingly preserved homes and public buildings, some dating back to the late eighteenth century.
This evening we've settled in at the Alcion Bed and Breakfast, another in our string of exceptionally beautiful residences, where we will bed down for the next three nights.
Lunenburg is a wonderfully preserved eighteenth century village and was named a United Nations World Heritage Site in 1995. We're looking forward to some interesting excursions over the next couple of days as we explore our current surroundings.
Here Heidi was anxious to visit a local museum housed in a Meeting House originally built in 1765, shortly after the arrival of a group of settlers known as Planters. The Planters were migrants from Cape Cod who took up residence in Nova Scotia beginning in 1762 on free land parcels following the expulsion of the Acadians, French pioneers thrown out by the new, militarily triumphant, British rulers of the North American colonies in what is now Canada.
Lemuel Crosby (the first Crosby to live in Nova Scotia) was one of those early Planter settlers arriving in 1762 (as was -- we found yesterday -- Phineas Durkee, ancestor of Eleanor Moses Durkee, who settled in Yarmouth that same year). Unfortunately, the museum was closed and the adjacent graveyard filled largely with deceased members of the Crowell family. Since Lemuel was surely involved in the construction of the Meeting House itself, however, the stop was worth the effort - and we have the photographic evidence to document it!
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| SEAL ISLAND LIGHTHOUSE, BARRINGTON, NOVA SCOTIA |
Shelburne was first settled by Loyalists fleeing the Revolutionary War. Liverpool was home to Privateers who terrorized the waters of the Atlantic in the seventeenth, eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, essentially as government licensed pirates. Both villages tout their primary historical associations and are full of some lovingly preserved homes and public buildings, some dating back to the late eighteenth century.
This evening we've settled in at the Alcion Bed and Breakfast, another in our string of exceptionally beautiful residences, where we will bed down for the next three nights.
Lunenburg is a wonderfully preserved eighteenth century village and was named a United Nations World Heritage Site in 1995. We're looking forward to some interesting excursions over the next couple of days as we explore our current surroundings.
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| A STORMY DAY IN SHELBURNE, NOVA SCOTIA |
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