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 Port Medway Baptist Church Anchor - Port Medway, Nova Scotia Posted by:  T0SHEA
N 44° 07.763 W 064° 34.500
20T E 373999 N 4887449
Right in the village, this was the third Baptist church to be built in Port Medway. Beside the church can be found an interesting artefact not often found in conjunction with an ecclesiastical structure.
Waymark Code: WMRXXM
Location: Nova Scotia, Canada
Date Posted: 08/19/2016
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If one were to also include East Port Medway, there were four Baptist churches built, two of which burned down. This church, consecrated in 1872 after the previous church burned on April 9, 1868, and the 1832 (or 1829, depending on who one chooses to believe) Baptist meeting house are the only two to survive. The meeting house is now operated as a museum, while this church, to the best of our knowledge, remains in use holding services, if somewhat irregularly.
To the side of the building, mounted on a low, angled plinth and backed by Canadian and Nova Scotian flags, is a large schooner's anchor, obviously quite old. Unfortunately, no plaque or sign is present to apprise us of the history of the anchor. It is what it is. It is quite possible that it serves as a memorial to a lost ship or a lost crew from the Port Medway area.
Once known as Port. Maltois, it is now Port Medway, which may be a variation of the earlier name or of Port Midway, a name derived from the fact that the settlement was approximately midway between Bridgewater and Liverpool. The area was settled by New England fishermen and sea traders about 1760.
A Free Will Baptist church was built just prior to 1829. It was sold to the Methodists in 1862. A Baptist meeting-house at Port Medway, in a state of near completion in September, 1851, was opened on August 19, 1855. A Free Will Baptist church at East Port Medway burned down in February, 1878. The Anglican Church of the Holy Redeemer was purchased in 1857, and was destroyed by fire on April 9, 1868. A new church was consecrated in 1872.
From the Nova Scotia Archives
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