A Tour of Summerville Nova Scotia

Summerville Nova Scotia

A Tour Around Summerville

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This page has been last updated on March 7 2007

The Harmony Park located at the the Dr. Arthur Hines School.
A Joint Community Project.



The Local businesses	and services of Summerville




Visit the Avon Emporium and The Shipwright Inn Why not visit Summerville and stay at this modern inn. While you are there enjoy the best home cooking on the Glooscap Trail. Eat outside in the Cafe Flower Garden and enjoy the flower garden along with the fish pond. View the Bay of Fundy's 50 ft. Tides from two vantage points, one of which which in a short walk from the Inn.	The Shipwright Inn



	The Local Service Station and Garage

	The Dr. Arthur Hines School

	The Kempt United Baptist Church

	This monument marks the location of the first Methodist Church in Summerville. It is located just west of the new Baptist Church.

	The Goat Hill Takeout

	Visit the Riverwind Gallery And Our Local Artist Ken Spearing

	The Summerville Volunteer Fire Department

	The Summerville Volunteer Fire Department showing the new extention as of December 31 2004

	The Summerville Volunteer Fire Department showing the new extention as of June 24 2005

A view of the	community



	Looking east to what is referred locally as Lower Summerville.

	The Oldest House in Summerville NS The House was built around 1835 Click here to view the rest of the Old Houses of Summerville

	This is the site of the original John Grant Homestead.



Across the road form the Grant Homestead is The Loyal Hill Cemetery. This is the site of the first Baptist Church in Summerville.

	Looking west from the Grant Homestead on Highway 215 into the main village of Summerville.

	Going in the same direction just past the Avon Emporium.

	Looking east across the Summerville Flats on Highway 215

	The Nunn Road from the west end.

	The Nunn Road looking west.

	The Nunn Road going north.

	The Nunn Road from the east end.

	Going west along the Nunn Road from the east end.

	Horbart Wharf Road

	Horbart Wharf Road

	This is the old Grant Gypsum Quarry on the Hobart Wharf Road.

	The Hobart Wharf was at this site. This was a busy port in the mid to late 1800's, shipping gypsum and doing ship repairs.

	The Hobart Beach at low tide.

	This is where the wharf was located. What you see on the beach is the remains of a few old schooners that were converted to gypsum barges and later abandoned here.

	Looking down river from Hobart's Wharf.

	An old apple orchard at the wharf site. It is now a picnic area.

	Master's Road for the top of the hill

	Click here to look at more pictures of *The Windshift Inn*

Our home in Summerville Nova Scotia

	Overlooking the Avon River

	Looking at our house from the Baptist Church

The Summerville Beach	and the 50 foot tides
High Tide	Low Tide



This was the site of the Armstrong Shipyard



	Sharon and Buddy enjoy the evening at the beach

	Looking towards Big Creek

	Buddy and Sally checking things out. They really like it down at the beach.

	Summerville's only yacht "Newfie" at her berth in Big Creak

For more details on the older sites and buildings visit my pages on the History of Summerville and The Old Houses of Summerville.

Other Links to Summerville and the surrounding area

	While you are touring the area why not view the The Quarry Park at Kempt Shore

	A Brief History of Summerville Including many old pictures of the area

	A Picture Tour of the Old Houses of Summerville NS All of these houses are at least 100 years old

	A Nova Scotia Snow Storm Hits Summerville

	Hants County Cruisers Car Club Antique Car Shows

	Free Road Maps and Hundreds of Highway RV Travel Itineraries

	Summerville's local Artist Ken Spearing

	Peterson's Campground Home of The Annual Kempt Shore Bluegrass and Oldtime Music Festival Come and enjoy the music and get one of the best camping deals in Nova Scotia

	The Minas View Golf Links Golfing with a difference

	Our 1873 Home

	Through the windows on a Rainy day at the Windshift Inn

	Sharon's Garden Watch it as it progress through the seasons, from early spring to full summer bloom

	Lilies From the Valley A Vast selection of Oriental and Asiatic previously cut commercially grown bulbs ready for shipment anywhere in Canada

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