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Attraction clusters..? Critical mass…? Familiar tourism terms. In the 1990s, Tatamagouche dreamed of revitalizing Creamery Square. By uniting small local museums, a private collection and the Archives to form a Heritage Centre in the former Tatamagouche Creamery, together with the imaginative use of associated buildings and involvement of other organizations, could a tourist attraction be created? The site was perfect and next to a beautiful tidal river.
Previous proposals for developing the North Shore of Nova Scotia brought few results. Now the village owned the Creamery…the dream could become reality….The Creamery Square Project began.
With imagination, determination, skill, work, and financial generosity – despite frustrations and disagreement – the Creamery Project will come to fruition, thanks to co-operation between groups, devoted volunteers and the guidance and expertise of professionals. It has taken a long time.
The story of this village attraction… the changing plans, problems, the rebuilding and modifying, the success of the Heritage Centre, the development of the booming Farmers’ Market, the outdoor stage, boat-building shed and the chaloupe, and the nearly completed Centre for the Arts – together with the privately owned Grain Elevator and Store, and the adjacent Butter Trail – has fulfilled and surpassed the original dream and created an amazing ‘attraction cluster’, unique to Nova Scotia.
