Provincial Registry of Heritage Property · Nova Scotia
LeNoir Forge
Arichat, Richmond, Nova Scotia
The record
- Designation
- Provincially registered heritage property
- Type
- museum
- Year built
- 1793
- Decade built
- 1790-1799
- Cultural association
- Acadian
- Notice of registration date
- 11 September 1986
- Civic address
- 712 Veterans Memorial Drive
- Community
- Arichat
- County
- Richmond
- Province
- Nova Scotia
- Country
- Canada
- Coordinates
- 45.51031, -61.01171
- File number
- Prov_file_53
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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
2 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1764 map "L'Isle Royale, Située a l'Entrée du Golphe de Saint Laurent" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1764 · L'Isle Royale, Située a l'Entrée du Golphe de Saint Laurent (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Eastern Half of Nova Scotia. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
The Province of Nova Scotia's Registered Heritage Properties dataset ↗
The Province's registration record
Reason for registration
its long association with the LeNoir family, who in the 19th century, as blacksmiths, supplied ships chandlery to the prosperous Arichat shipbuilding industry.
Character-defining elements
Character-defining elements of LeNoir Forge include:
- location of the forge on the north shore of Arichat Harbour;
- all original rubble stone on the north and west walls and all original cut stones on the east and south walls;
- corner quoins made of rectangular-cut sandstone blocks.
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.