ACADIAN TOUR #20 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.

21. Village Le Bourque   Legal documents from the 1770's refer to a ‘French barn’ left standing here after September 1755.  The community became known as Old Barns. Tradition indicates this site was used as a marker, from both sides of the Cobequid Bay, as the best place to cross the tidal flats. This  practice continued for generations.

Local tradition relates an Acadian mill was located on Mill Brook, 0.2 km to the west of the sign, near where Shore Road begins.

​From the Blue sign #20 you can see two Brick Gate Posts, what is the number on one by of them; divide that number by 1000 and call it X'. The final co-ordinates for the cache are  N 45° 17.696' + X'  and  W 063° 14.565' + X'