200th Anniversary of Settlement of Cape Sable - Barrington Head, Nova Scotia
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N 43° 33.987 W 065° 34.774
20T E 291681 N 4826954
Built in 1765 by the Congregationalist fishermen and farmers from Cape Cod, called Planters, this meeting house is a classic example of meeting houses once found throughout New England and Atlantic Canada.
Waymark Code: WMPABY
Location: Nova Scotia, Canada
Date Posted: 07/28/2015
Published By:Groundspeak Premium Member NW_history_buff
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This meeting house, now a National Historic Site, was built as both a religious structure and a community hall, housing both Sunday services and community meetings and elections. A relatively simple clapboard sided wood frame building, it is one of the oldest surviving buildings in English speaking Canada. It is also the oldest nonconformist house of worship in Canada. As well as the Congregationalists, the meeting house was used initially by all denominations in the area until other churches were constructed.

Beside the meeting house is a mill stone, mounted on a low concrete plinth and bearing a plaque which commemorates the bicentennial of the settling of the Cape Sable region of Nova Scotia. The millstone was originally used in a mill, probably a flour mill, on the Barrington River.

The plaque:
In commemoration of the 200th anniversary
of the settlement of Cape Sable region of
Nova Scotia in 1761 by a few families from
Cape Cod and Nantucket, this stone, from
an early mill at Barrington River, is
dedicated as a monument to the men and
women upon whose courage and fortitude
in the face of great hardship and adversity
our community was founded.

In the late twentieth century the meeting house was rescued from possible demolition, restored and converted to a museum, The Old Meeting House Museum. Today it is managed by the Cape Sable Historical Society on behalf of the Nova Scotia Museum. Adjacent is the old cemetery.
Subject: Territory

Commemoration: Bicentennial

Date of Founding: 1761

Date of Commemoration: 1961

Address:
2408 Highway 3
Barrington
Nova Scotia, B0W 1E0


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