Pollett's Cove is a magical area where your phone won't ring and there is nothing to do but enjoy the great outdoors. Getting here is not easy; it is a total of 13.2km out and back and is considered a challenging route. Most people will bring everything they need and stay for a day or two to really enjoy the experience. There are horses that rome free (they are not wild) and we recommened not feeding them as they will ocme back when you are sleeping looking for more.
The Cove was first inhabited by the Mi'kmaq and then was settled by Europens in 1838. The first Europen settler was from Scotland and they spoke Gaelic, it was Donald McLean and his famaliy. One of his sons Duncan was issued the first land grant in the Cove in 1861, Duncan drwoned a few hunded yards from the Cove leaving behind his wife and children.
There was a post office in the Cove for twenty years from 1896-1916 as well as a school and a "lobster factory" for the eight families that called the cove home. There are at least two burial grounds from this time that have preserved gracestone markers.
During the World War I the people in Pollett's Cove sent a telegraph wire to the rest of Nova Scotia to warn of the German U-Boasts entering the Guld of St. Lawrence.
By 1947 wildfires burned all the abandoned buildings in Pollet's Cove leaving it as we know it today. Please be respectful and take everything out that you bring in with you.
Please post a picture of yourself with at the top of the hill going into Pollett's Cove with the Cove in the background.
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