Stag Inn

East Preston, Nova Scotia

Type: Archaeological Sites
Address: 2356 Nova Scotia Trunk 7, East Preston, Nova Scotia, Canada
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The Stag Inn was built between about 1835 and 1840 and welcomed visitors until at least 1865. It was first owned by William and Nancy Dear. The Dears came from Maryland as veterans of the War of 1812. The Stag Inn would have been one of the first Black Owned businesses in Nova Scotia.

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https://archives.novascotia.ca/africanns/archives/?ID=176
https://archives.novascotia.ca/africanns/archives/?ID=175

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Fun Facts

Frederick Cozzens visited the inn on a June day during the late 1850s. He described it as a “little, weather-beaten house”, with strawberry banks in bloom and surrounded by a rocky lawn “rescued by the labor of a quarter century.” Cozzens and his local travelling companion changed their horse for William Dear’s pony and trap, in order to do a day’s sightseeing to Chezzetcook, about 11 miles away. Afterward, “A savory odor of frying bacon and eggs stole forth from the door as we sat, in the calm summer air, upon the stone fence.” (Frederic S. Cozzens, Acadia; or, A Month With The Blue Noses (New York, 1859)

Location

2356 Nova Scotia Trunk 7, East Preston, Nova Scotia, Canada
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