The Loading Ground, Pictou County
The Loading Ground, Nova Scotia
The Loading Ground Geography
- Official Name: The Loading Ground
- Geographic Feature Type Category: Terrain Feature
- Geographic Feature Type: Point
- Affiliated Community: Abercrombie
- Latitude / Longitude: 45.635263, -62.682808
The Loading Ground Maps
- 1:50k Topographic NTS Map: 011E10
- 1:250k Topographic NTS Map: 011E
- 1879 Pictou County Atlas Map: Section 12
- Nova Scotia Land Grant Map: NS Land Grant map 086
- Nova Scotia 1:10k Topographic Maps: 1045650062700 (Pictou), 1045600062700 (Granton)
About The Loading Ground
The Loading Ground is a cape situated along the East River in the community of Abercrombie.
In 1828, the General Mining Association Railway, one of the earliest industrial railways in Canada, completed its wharf on the farm of Sergeant Robert Dunbar, an early settler in Abercrombie. It served as the railway’s loading point for many years, where coal from the Albion Mines (now Stellarton) was transferred onto ships.
Early locomotives, including the famous Samson and Albion, ran directly from the mines to The Loading Ground.
1879 Abercrombie Map
2024 Abercrombie Map
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