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[[File:Amos Seaman School Museum.jpg|220px|thumb|right|Amos Seaman School Museum in Minudie]]
'''Minudie''' is a community in the Canadian province of [[Nova Scotia]], located in [[Cumberland County, Nova Scotia|Cumberland County]] about {{convert|8|km|mi}} from [[River Hebert, Nova Scotia|River Hebert]].

Once a thriving town with a population peaking about 1870 at more than 600 people, Minudie today still has three churches but a population of just 20. Industries included shipbuilding, farming, lumbering and the manufacture of grindstones. It was settled, dyked, and farmed by [[Acadians]] in the eighteenth century.<ref>N.E.S. Griffiths, ''The Contexts of Acadian History, 1686-1784'' (Kingston and Montreal, 1992), 65.</ref> After the [[Expulsion of the Acadians|expulsion]], the lands were granted to J.F.W. DesBarres, who leased it to displaced Acadians and others who farmed the marshlands, and cut grindstones along the shore.<ref>G.N.D Evans, ''Uncommon Obdurate: The Several Public Careers of J.F.W. DesBarres'' (Salem MA, 1969).</ref> [[Amos Seaman]] (1788–1864), the self-appointed "Grindstone King", assumed control of the grindstone quarries there about 1826 and was also largely responsible for the rest of the industries there as well.<ref name=Parker>Mike Parker, ''Buried in the Woods: Sawmill Ghost Towns of Nova Scotia'', Pottersfield Press, 2010, pp. 46=59</ref>

==References==
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==Further reading==
*[http://www.ccgsns.com/local-resources/news-articles-2/minudie-news-articles/ History of Minudie]

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[[Category:Communities in Cumberland County, Nova Scotia]]
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