Fort Hughes (Nova Scotia)

Three months after a privateer raid on the Cornwallis river, the Barracks was built in 1778 beside the militia parade ground at Starr's Point.

[4][5] There they fixed bayonets and "with bright weapons glittering, colours flying and drums beating, they marched up Church Street and back to Town Plot, where the barracks stood."

Bayard took an interest in the Annapolis Valley, and after the war he took up a grant of 4,730 acres at Wilmot Mountain.

[9] In 2016, archeologist Arron Taylor found rich artifacts on the property from the American Revolution time period.

[10] Jack Merriott, the customs broker in Port Williams, lived here between 1928 and 1988, when he was 100 years old, until it became an Inn.