FREETOWN PAST & PRESENT TABLE OF CONTENTS Chapter I LOCATION AND PHYSICAL SETTING Page Poem, The ................................................. 1 Where is Freetown .................................................... 1 Natural Features...................................................... 3 Bedrock......................................................... 3 Overburden...................................................... 3 Water ........................................................... 4 Vegetation....................................................... 6 Wildlife......................................................... 6 Fish ............................................................ 7 Shellfish......................................................... 8 Insects.......................................................... 8 Chapter II PIONEER SETTLEMENT Native People........................................................ 9 The Acadians ........................................................ 9 British Conquest & the Land Lottery..................................... 9 The United Empire Loyalists............................................ 10 John Clark 's Land .................................................... 12 The Thomson - Gordon Land ............................................ 13 Settlement Progresses Inland ........................................... 14 Burns Settlement ..................................................... 15 Irish Settlers Arrive................................................... 15 Why Freetown ?....................................................... 16 Chapter III TRANSPORTATION Road Sales........................................................... 17 The Horse and Buggy Days............................................. 17 Early Roads.......................................................... 18 Poem, The Freetown Pavement.......................................... 21 Rail Transport........................................................ 22 The Advent of the Automobile.......................................... 25 Modern Transportation................................................ 27