Otter Lake Series #22 Traditional Cache
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Otter Lake Series
The area around Otter Lake and Greenhead is steeped in history
going back to Crown Land Grants to Hinkleman and others in
1815.
William Umlah obtained the land and divided it among his
three sons in 1821.James Umlah received the Greenhead Otter Lake
land and built his homestead there. By 1865 the Drysdale, Umlah,
McDonald, Roach, Dart, and Yeadon families were living in the area.
A Yeadon daughter married a Havill in the 1890s and the land came
into Havill ownership. We are told it was Havill who sold the land
to HRM for the new Waste Resource Management Facility. Alexander
Drysdale had his mill on Otter Lake Brook, about 100 feet in front
of his home between the Greenhead Road and the shore of Otter Lake.
The old dam gates for Otter Lake are located where the Otter Lake
Brook flows out of Otter Lake. The gate is now open, but the
concrete works at the bottom of the gate still keeps the lake about
seven feet above its natural level thus creating new Islands.
The Drysdale House ca. 1920
The old school/church was about two hundred feet from
Alexander's house towards Beechville. His son Stewart's house was
about 250 feet southerly on the shore of Otter lake, looking
directly at the Waste Resource Management Facility which is about
1000 feet away. The old Greenhead Community school was located
within a very short distance from the old Umlah home/cemetery,
about 2000 feet south of Alexander's, part way up the long hill
(thank-you to Iris Shea for her background help). The Otter Lake
caches are winter friendly at various points around the lake
shore.
Crown Land Grants Map
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