Local History

These three photos are all from the town I grew up in called Colpoy’s Bay. I find them all interesting because I never knew much about the town’s history. The wheel of the sawmill is down by the dock and I saw almost everything day, but I never thought much about and it turns out there used to be a sawmill where the wheel stands. Albemarle Street is a street I travelled down most days, and I find it fascinating that we used to have a blacksmith shop and a hotel as there is not much to be seen in Colpoy’s Bay nowadays. Finally, the store is also quite interesting. All my life I never knew what is was, to me it seemed just like a white building on the corner of a street, but it was actually a well-known store and now it can be rented out for residence. All of this was right under my nose and I never knew about it. I guess now I can walk around town imagining all the old buildings and the bustling everyday life of a prospering town compared to the quiet life the town sees now.