Each pewter ornament (2 3/8" dia.) is dated and identified on the reverse and comes with a card giving a brief history of the landmark.

On June 9, 1761, the shallop “Pompey Dick” sailed into the Chebogue River fromSandwich, Cape Cod with the first English settlers: Ebenezer Ellis, Sealed Landersand Moses Perry. Two days later Jonathan Crosby and Joshua Burgess arrived fromConnecticut. Later in the summer Elishama Eldridge and seven other families arrivedfrom various New England locations.
The Pompey Dick landed at Crawley’s Island. Perry remained there while Ellis movedfurther down the river to today’s Chebogue Point. Landers went up the harbour at CapeForchu and set up a mill at the head of the harbour, the present day Milton. Other familiesthat arrived settled at the mouth of Perry’s River to the end of the Wyman Road.
The first winter was harsh and the settlers survived with the help of the Mi’kmaq. Theland they were settling on in Chebogue had belonged to a small Acadian settlement thathad been settled in 1736. Very little is known of the settlement.
In 1763, the first meeting of the Township of Yarmouth was held on June 15th, 1763.All who had settled were invited to make formal application for their land. The Councilcarefully established the township and assigned the land grants.