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HALIFAX COUNTY
Pockwock

LOCATION:

The Hammonds Plains Road known as Route #216 travels through the four communities from Millview Cove on the Bedford Basin to Upper Tantallon in St. Margaret's Bay.

Farther along Hammonds Plains Road to the right is Yankeetown Road. A few more miles the road forks, turning left leading to Upper Hammonds Plains and Pockwock Lake.

Lucasville covers the small community along the Lucasville Road between Hammonds Plains and Sackville.

WHAT'S IN A NAME?

The Hammonds Plains area was named for Sir Andrew Snape Hamonds (Hammond), Lieutenant Governor from 1781 to 1782.

Pockwock is a Mi'kmaq word that means 'the place you can go no farther,' and was aptly used here as Pockwock's road ends at the lake. Also an area known as English Corner during the early 1800s, some old documents refer to it as The Great Pock-Quack while others named it Moose Town.

Lucasville was named for James Lucas (Locas), an early pioneer.

A number of prominent Halifax merchants were granted land in the area of Lucasville Road that they did not develop. The lands were then re-offered in 1785 to Loyalist families who settled in an area that they called Yankeetown.

HISTORY:

The Hammonds Plains road was one of the first roads built by the municipality as part of the route that was to link Halifax with the Annapolis Valley.



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