Oak Hill Cemetery in Allains Creek, Nova Scotia

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Get directions Allains Creek, Nova Scotia, Canada

Coordinates: 44.72833, -65.50723
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The first known survey of this cemetery was done by Dr. Allan E. Marble on May 7, 1967. As was his custom, Dr. Marble did not name the cemetery, instead assigning it an identifying number, in this case 78, and a location, Dugway Road. However, there is no community by the name of Dugway Road. It would appear that Dr. Marble may have chosen the road name rather than the community name in order to better pinpoint the cemetery's location at a time long before GPS was available.

At a later date, Genweb volunteers transcribed Dr. Marble's original survey notes and made them available online at Rootsweb, citing the cemetery name as "Dugway Road Cemetery" and the location as Lequille. At the time, the cemetery may well have been located in Lequille but when the province-wide Civic Addressing project was underway in the early 2000s, it appears that the boundary between Allains Creek and Lequille was shifted slightly east. This resulted in Oak Hill Cemetery finding itself west of the Lequille boundary in the community of Allains Creek.

There is today a cemetery sign that clearly denotes the name of the cemetery as "Oak Hill Cemetery". Other names by which the cemetery has been known locally are included in the AKA listing above.

DIRECTIONS: The cemetery is located on the north side of Dugway Road, west of Civic #309. A wrought iron fence separates the cemetery and its oaks from the forest around.