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Auburn
Auburn, Nova Scotia
(Also known as Morden Road)
Subdivision Kentville, Mile 19.1
Elevation: 94.9 feet[1]
Facilities & Features
- Auburn Station
- Section Tool House, east of station
Commerce & Industry
Two Apple Warehouses:[2]
- Aylesford Fruit and Produce Shipping Company warehouse, (1927) 20,000 barrel capy.
- Herbert Oyler apple warehouse, (1927) 10,000 barrel capy.
- Coal Shed, across from station
Description & History
Settled after the American Revolution, Auburn was named after a village in Westmeath, England. It became a farming community along the DAR, marked by its major landmark, the 1790s St. Mary's Anglican church, located just across the street from the train station.[3] The village was a centre for both apple and cranberry production. The Aylesford Fruit and Produce Shipping Company, part of the United Fruit Companies co-op, operated a large apple warehouse. Kentville businessman Herbert Oyler operated a large cranberry bog and packing plant at Auburn as well as an apple warehouse. Rail traffic dwindled after the loss of the British apple market in the 1940s. They warehouses were converted to other uses and the Auburn Station closed in 1947 with the village becoming a flag stop.[4]
Operations & Orders
Gallery
Track chart of Auburn, showing the Auburn Station and platform and apple warehouses, 1918.
Topographic map from Auburn to Aylesford circa 1956.
Auburn Station sign with original station building in background, July 1, 1961.
References & Footnotes
- Alexander MacNab, Windsor and Annapolis Railway, Report of Alexander MacNab Nov 1, 1873
- 1969 Memorandum of General Information
- ↑ Louis Comeau, Dominion Atlantic Station List by Name, page 1
- ↑ Dominion Atlantic Railway, DAR Chart of Apple and Produce Warehouses, February 23, 1927
- ↑ C. Bruce Fergusson, "Auburn", Place-Names and Places of Nova Scotia Nova Scotia Archives (1967), page 23.
- ↑ John and Twila DeCoste, A History of Aylesford and District, Lancelot Press, 1986, p. 204.
