Happy 264th birthday to Yarmouth!
On June 9, 1761, our area was founded when a ship carrying three families arrived from Sandwich, Massachusetts.
It was later incorporated as a town in 1890.
In 2011, a major celebration was held with a re-enactment of the ship’s arrival in celebration of the 250th anniversary.
This year a small celebration is planned this afternoon at Town Hall with singing and of course, cake.
Local historian David Sollows told us in 2021 that the families of Sealed Landers, Ebenezer Ellis and Moses Perry first arrived in Chebogue.
“More settlers followed that group. The first winters were brutal, and some decided the land was too inhospitable and left. There were a few families that remained, and more settlers arrived, and Yarmouth became what it is today.”
Many descendants of those original families are still here today.
Sollows says of course, the Mi’kmaq were here for thousands of years, and there were Acadian settlers in the 1600s up until 1759 in Chebogue and Chegoggin.
