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This is a picture taken from the hill on top of ferndale overlooking Placentia and Jerseyside, 1908. I think the picture speaks for itself when I ask "I wonder just how different placentia would have been if the brige wasn't here".
This is the old circus that use to come to my home town in the 30s. Note that it is on the site of Fort Louis and the New Fort. Jersyside, Newfoundland and there is no bridge yet
Here is what the place looks like as it ages a bit with more houses and about the same amount of standing water..........................
This is the pontoon bridge the americans came and built in the 40s to connect Placentia and Jerseyside for the first time ever and since!
As you can see the landscape has change and the weather never stays the same so all our claim to fame is our newfoundland slang LOL i was in the moment!
We are always looking for something here in Fort louis and The New Fort A.K.A. the ball field.
At one time this spot had no houses and was just beach and that was less then a 100 years ago. Now look at it, this is a ageing community. 65 and older here this is where most of our retirees live! Really nice spot! Wish I had a spot here!
This nice shot I took is from the redoubt just above Fort Louis. You can see if anyone ever had a spot to think this is the place. If you look at the peak in the middle of the photo below and glance over to the pic just next to you ....AH HA found it didnt you! Yep I love that! You can See there is no houses in the black n white where the colored one shows nothing but houses! My how time has changed this little town
You can see there is a great deal of water on all sides of Placentia making it just like an island! I am quite fond of this picture! And here is a well know secret....This is the old part of Placentia. This is the very place were French and english lived and died with only the thought of a life, better then there's, for there family. Where the water narrows there by the s shaped river was a French fort call The View Fort. and below it on the river side was the people of placentia's small dwellings, I can see it in my mind like it was yesterday. Such an amazing place and so much history yet to be found. The people here today still live on that very same soil! This place started as a little fishing village to what it is today!
This is the newer part of our town and has the most important parts of our community such as the new school, And the only sobeys in the area. This is also where our aging community live in the quit retirement homes in this area. very quit and peaceful most of the time! At one time not a soul deared put there house on this beach for fear, "The wind would render it useless". But alas we have overcome the winds and rain, floods and earthquakes, to show this little town has staying power as like those of a big city rapped in a little tight bundle! Now this is downtown Placentia. We have many other communities in this city like Freshwater,Dunville, Jerseyside,,Ferndale, and Southeast Which is in the background across the pond there . And all these little places make up what we all call home here in the Placentia bay area!
Lets take a walk down the history of Placentia through pictures and words