HCAH - Cogmagun River Traditional Cache
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Hants County Acadian Heritage Series. A series of caches showing “snapshots in time” of Acadian life in this county. All locations are signed and documented as significant Acadian Historical Sites. Container: lock n lock sandwich contianer
Our home borders on both Hants and Colchester counties, we were quite surprised to discover how large the Acadian influence was in this area. Most of these historical sites are newly developed, please take the time to sit and enjoy their locations. Watch for the blue signs with a yellow star at the top … these signs have interesting information regarding each place.
Hants County was known to Acadians as “les Mines.” By the 1680s Acadians had settled along the Avon River, an area which they would call Pigiguit. By the middle of the 18th century Acadians had settled all along the Hants shore and this area had become one of the major settlements in the French colony of Acadie. Acadian villages were located along tidal rivers adjacent to meadows and marshes which could be dyked, drained and and farmed. The fertile marshlands supported a prosperous agricultural economy.
About 200 Acadians lived along this river and many were buried in this cemetery before 1755. There may have been a mill at the head of the tide.
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