Ferrona Junction Traditional Cache
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This cache is located in a little known area of Pictou County called Ferrona. Park at N 45 30.172 W 062 40.693. Find the trail behind the mounds of dirt. Go up the trail a distance of 136 meters from the parking coordinates find the narrow trail to your left. The cache is a large 1Kg coffee can and is fairly well hidden.
The cache hunt will take you to a location that has great historical significance, never known or long forgotten by most people. To get to the cache, you will see the remains of an iron slag dump that was active more than 100 years ago.
Ferrona or (Ferrona Junction) is situated at the fork of the East River or (where the East and West branches of the East River meet) not far from the village of Eureka. Settlement began in this general area in 1789. The name Ferrona comes from the word ferrum (iron in Latin) and was given to the village around the year 1890. In 1889, Nova Scotia Steel & Forge Company along with the New Glasgow Iron Coal & Railway Company purchased land along the East River containing iron ore. A railroad was built from Ferrona to Sunnybrae in order to ship iron ore from the mines upriver. At Ferrona, North America's first coal-washing and retort ovens were built along with a blast furnace. In 1894, the company shipped iron ore from the Wabana iron ore deposits at Belle Isle, Conception Bay, Newfoundland to the plant in Ferrona. The plant at Ferrona begun producing pig iron around 1892 and went out of blast in 1904 when the manufacture of iron and steel was transferred to Sydney.
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