Provincial Registry of Heritage Property · Nova Scotia
Fox Hill Cemetery
Port Williams, Kings, Nova Scotia
The record
- Designation
- Provincially registered heritage property
- Type
- cemetery
- Year built
- 1762
- Decade built
- 1760-1769
- Notice of registration date
- 14 June 1990
- Civic address
- Church Street
- Community
- Port Williams
- County
- Kings
- Province
- Nova Scotia
- Country
- Canada
- Coordinates
- 45.11201, -64.40484
- File number
- Prov_file_118
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
Roe Brothers, Atlas of the Maritime Provinces (1879) / Internet ArchiveDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesRoe Brothers, Atlas of the Maritime Provinces (1879) / Internet ArchiveDavid Rumsey Map Collection, David Rumsey Map Center, Stanford Libraries
4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1878 map "Lunenburg Co., N.S." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1878 · Lunenburg Co., N.S. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1879 · County of Kings, Nova Scotia (Roe Brothers Atlas of the Maritime Provinces) (Roe Brothers, Atlas of the Maritime Provinces (1879) / Internet Archive)
- 1879 · County of Hants, Nova Scotia (Roe Brothers Atlas of the Maritime Provinces) (Roe Brothers, Atlas of the Maritime Provinces (1879) / Internet Archive)
- 1879 · Counties of Westmorland and Albert, New Brunswick (Roe Brothers Atlas of the Maritime… (David Rumsey Map Collection, David Rumsey Map Center, Stanford Libraries)
The Province of Nova Scotia's Registered Heritage Properties dataset ↗
The Province's registration record
Reason for registration
it is the burying ground for many of the earliest settlers in Cornwallis Township and because of its position overlooking the Wellington Dyke, making it a highly prominent landmark in the Cornwallis Township.
Character-defining elements
Character-defining elements of Fox Hill Cemetery include:
- chain-link fencing with stone gate posts at entrance;
- mature trees located throughout the cemetery;
- original and historic grave stones and monuments, with their surviving inscriptions;
- grass-covered interment areas, and separate family burial plots enclosed with wrought iron fencing;
- unobstructed view over the Wellington Dyke.
Nearby in the register
- Barracks (The)B&B1 mi
- Prescott Housemuseum1 mi
- St. John's Anglican Church & Cemeterychurch1 mi
- Starr's Point Cemeterycemetery2 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.