[2] The vegetation is a complex of coniferous forest (mainly balsam fir) and heath barren.

[6] Work the following year recovered a Spanish American silver one real coin manufactured in Potosi in what is now Bolivia, dated to circa 1653.

St, Mark's had an adjacent graveyard:[9] Made from local stones, the grave markers were likely either carved in a nearby community to New Perlican.

It makes sense that a gravestone carving culture would spring up from that, and I’m not surprised to see these samples at the site!

In addition to these, there were several headstones carved by A. Smith, a gravestone carver from St. John’s who was the first to import marble from New England for gravestones in the early 1800s, and MacKim, another carver from St. John’s who also worked with imported marble and limestone.

Near the water was the Pittman shipbuilding area where many ocean going schooners were built by that prominent family of sea captains in its history....