Minesville Adit / Shanghai Workings

This is one of the first gold mining locations in Nova Scotia, dating back to 1843, when a farmer repairing a dam on his land reported that he had found gold in some quartz, but his father told him to “drop his nonsense, go on with his work and pitch the rubbish away.” In 1861, he revisited the site and found multiple gold nuggets, and the area was declared the Lawrencetown Gold District. This specific area was known as the Shanghai Workings, and had multiple shafts driven into the ground in the area, and one adit.