Life in the 1800s

Place Names Inverness County Newfoundland United States

What was it like to live in Inverness County during the 1800s? Well, for one thing, it was hard work. There were no stores. There was very little transportation. People got and made just about everything they needed from their own land. Men fished part-time but the most important activity was farming. Farms had cattle and sheep and produced butter and cheese. There were many grist mills and tanneries in the area. Local coal and drift wood was used as fuel. Women milked the cows, fed the chickens, tended the vegetable garden, made butter, baked bread , spun yarn, wove cloth and raised large families. Men fished, worked in the woods and did the heavy farm chores. If they had more than they needed they traded it with their neighbours for something else. They also sold shiploads of lumber, cattle, sheep, butter and cheese that went to such places as Newfoundland and the United States.