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1394: 558: 31: 1369: 534: 570: 1381: 227:, the apple industry and the lives of the Prescott sisters. Fully restored rooms depict both the Georgian period of Charles Prescott's time and the later era of the 1930s and 40s when it was restored by the Prescott sisters. Open from May to October, the museum offers guided tours of the period rooms and hosts a variety of regular events to interpret the house and its gardens for families and children. 546: 195:
varieties which he shared freely with area growers. When Prescott died in 1859, the house was purchased and maintained for several decades by the Kaye family. However later owners neglected the house and by the 1890s, it fell into ruin. In 1931 the property was purchased by Mary Allison Prescott, the
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purchased the land in 1811 when he took early retirement from his shipping and trading career. He used Acacia Grove as a base for agricultural experiments, importing a wide variety of plants, especially
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great granddaughter of Charles Prescott. She restored the house and lived in it with her two sisters until 1970. They donated the house to the Province of
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Archibald, Stephen and Sheila Stevenson, Heritage Houses of Nova Scotia, Formac Publishing, Halifax (2004), p. 21
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in 1969. It is also a Provincially Registered Property under the province's
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Acacia Grove / Prescott House National Historic Site of Canada
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Starr's Point, Nova Scotia
Canada
National Historic Site of Canada
http://museum.gov.ns.ca/prh/en/home
National Historic Site of Canada
Nova Scotia Heritage Property Act
Starr's Point, Nova Scotia
Nova Scotia Museum
Charles Ramage Prescott
Georgian
Halifax, Nova Scotia
apple
Nova Scotia
National Historic Site of Canada
Heritage Property Act
Nova Scotia Museum
Georgian architecture
Acacia Grove / Prescott House
Canadian Register of Historic Places
Prescott House
Canadian Register of Historic Places
Prescott House Museum Website
"Prescott House", Nova Scotia Apples website
Photographs of Prescott House Museum
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