11639 HWY 16 |
Nova Scotia Tourism Region : Eastern Shore
Description From Owner:
- Birchtown 1803 - This settlement is located about four miles north east of Guysborough Harbour on the eastern shore of Nova Scotia. In the early days it was a colored community near the loyalist settlement of Manchester.
- The land was granted to Jairus Hart, Samuel Hull (Hall) and Andrew Leet in July, 1803. Samuel Hull sold part of his lot to Kenneth Jamison on April 9, 1804. He made improvements and constructed buildings, then sold the land to Thomas Cutler October 1826.
- A school was erected in the colored settlement of Manchester in 1873. The school-house in Birchtown was condemned in 1888. In 1936 school was conducted in a mission church.
- Lumbering and limited farming are the basic industries.
- Glenkeen: The name is thought to have come from the name of the estate of Hon. John J. Marshall, Conservative member of the Legislative Assembly for Guysborough 1840-47; 1848–59; 1867-70, Speaker 1868-70 and Financial Secretary 1857-60.
- The area was settled by Loyalists in 1784.
- from guyscogene.net
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