His main business interest was the manufacture of grindstones.
In 1847 over 33,000 grindstones were shipped from Cumberland County.
GPS location: 45°46'27"N 64°20'22"W
The above photographs were taken on 30 July 2003.
Links to Relevant Websiteshttp://www.tantramar.com/trib/2000/09/13/columns.html Seaman Street Halifax Sunday Herald, 21 September 2003 http://www.herald.ns.ca/stories/2003/09/21/fHeritage134.raw.html King Seaman School Museum by the Cumberland County Genealogical Society http://www.ccgs.ednet.ns.ca/cumb/minudie.htm Amos Seaman School Museum by the River Hebert, Joggins and area website http://www.nsaccess.ns.ca/Capsites/RiverHebertCAP/kingseaman1.htm Minudie Interpretive Park by Fundy Shore Ecotour http://www.fundyshoreecotour.ns.ca/tour_am07.htm Lower Cove: Former Site of Booming Grindstone Quarry ...Grindstones were fashioned in a variety of weights and sizes. In 1875, a stone produced in Lower Cove, Cumberland County, and shipped to Maine was seven feet [213 cm] in diameter and weighed 8,000 pounds [3500 kg]... http://www.ccgs.ednet.ns.ca/cumb/l_cove.htm An Infant Railway: What the Iron Horse will do for the Joggins Halifax Morning Herald, 3 November 1887 The opening of the Joggins Railway... ...there is the Minudie Branch of six miles... http://www.geocities.com/dblegere/rail.html |
200 Grindstones now in Sackvillewhich he had put together in the "Carriage House" of the Marshlands Inn in Sackville, New Brunswick, (the old family home – a Heritage Property) and donated all its contents to the town of Sackville. In January, 1999, these articles were passed on to the Tantramar Heritage Trust, including about 200 beautiful grindstones which likely originated from the Stonehaven quarry... Source: The White Fence the Tantramar Heritage Trust newsletter, March 1999 http://heritage.tantramar.com/Newsletter_8.html |
A Thriving IndustrySource: Secondary Processing of Industrial Minerals in Nova Scotia http://www.gov.ns.ca/natr/meb/ic/ic53.htm |
Archived Business RecordsMinudie Mining and Transportation Company, 1867-1901 1.1 metres MG 3 Vol.: 5077-5085 |
Grindstone CompaniesNova Scotia, gave Royal Assent to an Act for the Incorporation of the South Joggins Freestone and Grindstone Quarrying Company (owned by Amos Seaman). Source: page 168 of Journal of Proceedings of Her Majesty's Legislative Council of the province of Nova Scotia, 1864 CIHM 9_00947_38 Nova Scotia Legislature, 1873, chapter 55: — An Act to incorporate the Minudie Mining and Transportation Company Limited Seaman & Company of Lower Cove, Cumberland County, Nova Scotia, exhibited grindstones at the International Exhibition of Philadelphia, 1876. Source: page 7 of Catalog of Canadian Exhibitors in the Report of the Canadian Commission at the International Exhibition of Philadelphia, 1876 CIHM 9_03761 Atlantic Grindstone, Coal & Railway Company Limited Nova Scotia Legislature, 1906, chapter 155: — An Act to authorize the amalgamation of Atlantic Grindstone, Coal & Railway Company with Atlantic Grindstone Company and Fundy Coal Company. Nova Scotia Legislature, 1887, chapter 63: — An Act to incorporate the Minudie Railway Company Limited Nova Scotia Legislature, 1888, chapter 80: — An Act to amend the Act to incorporate the Minudie Railway Company Limited and to extend the line. The following Dominion Acts also applied to this railway: Dominion Parliament, 1887 chapter 24 — Dominion Parliament, 1889 chapter 3 — Dominion Parliament, 1894 chapter 4 — Dominion Parliament, 1903 chapter 57 — Nova Scotia Legislature, 1902, chapter 140: — An Act to incorporate the Minudie Coal Company Limited Amended 1905, chapter 137 Nova Scotia Legislature, 1903, chapter 190: — An Act to incorporate the Minudie Coal Railway Company Limited |
Referenceof certain trust property, Minudie Estate, Cumberland County |
Amos Seaman's two churches Minudie
Joggins war memorial Joggins
Yorkshire Settlers plaque River Philip
Richmond war memorial Richmond
Wentworth Valley war memorial Wentworth
E.B. Chandler plaque Amherst
R.B. Dickey plaque Amherst
J. McCully plaque Amherst
Sir C. Tupper plaque Amherst
Fort Beausejour plaques, 1755 Aulac
Thomas Dixson, November 1776, plaque Fort Cumberland
Oldest Settlements plaque, 1607 Advocate Harbour
Sea in Our History display Advocate Harbour
Port Greville war memorial Port Greville
Diligent River historic monument Diligent River
Confederation Plaque Diligent River
First Air Mail plaque Parrsboro
Maccan war memorial Maccan
Springhill war memorial Springhill
Oxford war memorial Oxford
Westchester Station war memorial Westchester Station