Englishs Gulch flows past meadows on the way to the River

• Main Author: Branch Cultural Historical Association
• Format: Still Image
• Language: English
• Published: 2008
• Subjects: Knowledge of the land/water and environment; Migration/settlement; Landscape; Livestock; Vegetables; Gulches; Newfoundland; Canada; Gulch; Log Cabin; The Flats
• Online Access: http://collections.mun.ca/cdm/ref/collection/ich_avalon/id/4414

Two Gulches adjacent to the Flats on the east side of the River provide valuable farming land as well as great places for the nature lover to explore. Englishs Gulch, the gulch closer to the ocean, was one of the tracts of land cleared in Branch in the 1800s as the population grew and new families r...