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G.H. Yeaton Warehouse
George H. Yeaton Warehouse Hantsport
Located on the 15 car warehouse siding behind the Hantsport Station on the Halifax Subdivision at Hantsport
- Wooden construction
- Two-story
- 3,800 barrel capacity[1]
This warehouse was built in the 1890s, as part of George H. Yeaton's large candy factory complex which operated on Station Street from the 1890s to 1941.[2] The apple business was evidently a sideline of the Yeaton candy business and used a warehouse that was unique on the DAR.
Gallery
Hantsport viewed looking east from boxcar on the Hantsport team track with the Hantsport Station, the G.H. Yeaton Warehouse and the Sandford apple warehouse, circa 1895.
Track schematic for Hantsport, 1918, including the gypsum spurs, pulp spurs, the Hantsport Railyard and the Halfway River Bridge and Aboiteau. Note the G.H. Yeaton Warehouse below the station to the right.
Yeaton's Candy Factory buildings on Station Street in Hantsport with the back of the Hantsport Station, 1932.
Hantsport, with the G.H. Yeaton Warehouse looking railway west, July 1994.
Hantsport Station with the G.H. Yeaton Warehouse behind, July 15, 2009.
References and Footnotes
- ↑ Dominion Atlantic Railway, DAR Chart of Apple and Produce Warehouses, February 23, 1927
- ↑ Allen B. Robertson, Tide and Timber: Hantsport Nova Scotia 1795-1995, Lancelot Press, 1996, page 94-95.
