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In 2002 the staff and volunteers of the Cole Harbour Heritage Farm Museum decided to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the formation of the Cole Harbour Rural Heritage Society. What better way than to publish a book on the history of the community. The Society asked local author Harry Chapman if he would be interested in the project. Mr. Chapman thought it was a great idea and worked for months with staff, volunteers, an editor and indexer to create Along the Cole Harbour Road, A Journey Through 1765 - 2003.

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Cole Harbour, 1765
18th Century, Circa 1765
Cole Harbour, Nova Scotia, Canada

Credits:
Cole Harbour Heritage Farm Museum
Dawn Reiss Fonds, Box 19, File 36

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A. F. Church Map, 1865
19th Century, 1865
Halifax County, Nova Scotia, Canada

Credits:
Cole Harbour Heritage Farm Museum
Dorothy & Winston Settle Collection

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Dartmouth, 1878
19th Century, 1878
Dartmouth, Nova Scotia

Credits:
Cole Harbour Heritage Farm Museum
Winston Wright Collection

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Civil Defense Map, ca 1950
20th Century, Circa 1950
Dartmouth, Nova Scotia

Credits:
Cole Harbour Heritage Farm Museum
Winston Wright Collection

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The Cole Harbour Road in 1917
20th Century, Circa 1917
Long Hill on the Cole Harbour Road, Cole Harbour, Nova Scotia, Canada

Credits:
Cole Harbour Heritage Farm Museum
Ian Forsyth Fonds

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Long Hill
20th Century, Circa 1977
Long Hill on the Cole Harbour Road, Cole Harbour, Nova Scotia, Canada

Credits:
Cole Harbour Heritage Farm Museum
Karen Smith Fonds, Photograph #6, Box 23 File 1

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An oblique aerial looking west over the Bell house and barns at the top of Long Hill
20th Century, Circa 1955
The top of Long Hill, Cole Harbour Road, Cole Harbour, Nova Scotia, Canada

Credits:
Cole Harbour Heritage Farm Museum
Rosemary Eaton Fonds, Family Album Series, Barbara Bell Album XXXVI - 4

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An eight horse team is being hitched up to grade the Cole Harbour Road
20th Century, Circa 1935
Cole Harbour, Nova Scotia, Canada

Credits:
Cole Harbour Hetitage Farm Museum
Rosemary Eaton Fonds, Family Albums Series, James Albert Giles Album XI - 6

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Shoveling snow
20th Century, Circa 1950
Cole Harbour, Nova Scotia, Canada

Credits:
Cole Harbour Heritage Farm Museum
Rosemary Eaton Fonds, Family Albums Series, Robert (Bob) Davies Album XVI-12

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The Temperance Hall on Lodge Road
20th Century, Circa 1905
Cole Harbour, Nova Scotia, Canada

Credits:
Cole Harbour Heritage Farm Museum
Rosemary Eaton Fonds, Family Albums Series, Melvin Harris Album XXVI - 25

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Victoria Hall was built in the 1920s and replaced the Temperance Hall as community centre. For over forty years Victoria Hall hosted many community events including dinners, socials and meetings of the Women's Institute and Boy Scouts. The hall was also used for the first dances organized by the servicemen from Bell Lake Radar Station # 2 during WWII. Victoria Hall was sold to the Russell Credit Union in the 1960s. The small poultry shelters shown in the next image were part of the Geldart farm. Every farm had its flock of poultry but some families like the Geldarts, Eiseners and later the Davies were engaged in large scale poultry operations.

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At the corner of the Cole Harbour and Caldwell Roads
20th Century, Circa 1950
Cole Harbour Road, Cole Harbour, Nova Scotia, Canada

Credits:
Cole Harbour Heritage Farm Museum
Rosemary Eaton Fonds, Family Albums Series, Melvin Harris Album #XXVI-49

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Welcome to Cole Harbour
29 December 2010
Cole Harbour, Nova Scotia, Canada

Credits:
Cole Harbour Heritage Farm Museum
Terry James Eyland