Welcome to the Petitcodiac Geocaching Challenge. The caches are placed in the Village of Petitcodiac as well as in the outlying areas of Cornhill and Glenvale.
In 1833, O.A. Pitfield obtained a land grant of 300 acres where the Village of Petitcodiac is currently located. Because this land was prone to flooding, the land changed hands a few times until E.B. Chandler bought the land on speculation after having heard that a railroad would be built. Initially the railroad would have been built on the other side of the river, but since it was cultivated land, a later railroad survey placed the tracks on the south side of the river, across Chandler's newly acquired land. In 1857, the Eastern and North American Railway established a train station on Chandler's land and three years later, on July 18, 1860, the first train steamed into the Village.
The flooding problem on Chandler's land was solved by the fill and ditches that were built for the railway. With the flooding problem solved, Chandler hired a civil engineer, Mr. Dibble, to map out a village with streets and building lots. This would soon become the Village of Petitcodiac. In the early years of the Village, the area was commonly called 'The Station'. Most of the businesses at Humphrey Corner relocated to 'The Station'.