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![]() Morice's Mills historical marker, |
1821 Sometime in the early 1700s Acadian settlers built a dam at this site creating what was later called "Morice's Mill Pond" and more recently "Silver Lake." Planters from New England took over the site establishing several mills. After a succession of owners (including Christopher Harper great-great-great-great-grandfather of former Prime Minister Stephen Harper) John Morice acquired a controlling interest in the dam, mill pond and mills in 1821. The businesses remained in the hands of the Morice family until 1939. The old mill dam gave way in 1932 but in 1952 the Sackville Fish and Game Association restored the lake by building a new concrete dam. Beginning in 1976 a housing sub-division was developed on the south side of the lake. |
1821 - 1939 |
![]() in October 2001 |
This site is listed in the Canadian Register of Historic Places ; see Morice's Mill Pond Estabrooks, R.Ernest (with editing and additional notes by Al Smith), "The Mills and Millpond in Middle Sackville," The White Fence, No.15, April 2001, pp. 5,6. Smith, Al, "Dedication Ceremony Recognizes Contributions Of Morice's Mills To Surrounding Area," Sackville Tribune-Post, 7 November 2001. Jackson, K. and C.Scobie, Sackville Then and Now: New Brunswick's Oldest Town in Photographs (Sackville, N.B.: Tantramar Heritage Trust, 2013), pp. 1-5. |