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Leaving August behind already with a glimpse of autumn with this card from Canada. 

This card depicts a sawmill at the Kings Landing open-air museum in New Brunswick. 

 

The historical settlement of Kings Landing was never a “real” place. Rather, it was created in the 1970s as a “living history” museum covering the era between 1820 and 1920 in an area which was predominantly settled by Loyalists after the American Revolution. It has all the features one would expect in a living history museum: a blacksmith, a printshop, a general store, farms and livestock and plenty of characters in period costumes.

Most of the buildings found at Kings Landing are authentic period structures, however. They were relocated from nearby areas that were flooded after the construction of the massive Mactaquac Dam in 1968.

 

 

Photo: Daryl Kajati

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One of the buildings that was not relocated but rather was built specifically for the park is the sawmill. Completed in the 1970s, it is meant to represent an 1830s-style wooden sawmill powered by a waterwheel. - in: https://www.waymarking.com