ACADIAN TOUR #14 Multi-Cache

This is a series of twenty five (25) caches placed to highlight the Acadian Heritage in Colchester County. Visit the actual sites of ACADIAN Villages of Cobequid. Enjoy vistas little altered from the days when Acadian families dyked the marshes and harvested salt hay. Captain  Abijah Willard with an Acadian guide, map maker Thomas Lewis &100 New England troops traveled through this area. His 1755 diary is one of the best information sources for these communities.

14. Tatamagouche  This was a busy Acadian port throughout most of the first half of the 18^th century. Regular shipments of hides, spars, cattle and other agricultural products passed through en route to Louisbourg, to Île Saint-Jean (PEI), and to other ports, as far as the Caribbean. On August 16, 1755, Willard had 12 buildings burned here, including at least 2 storehouses containing “Rum and malosas and Iron ware... Rum sugar... & wine...”.

On the blue sign;  X is the year the chapel was built west of here; divide the year by 1000 and call it Y'  The final co-ordinates are N45° 40.522' +Y W063° 18.250' - Y'