Called kissing bridges, Kings County has 16 covered bridges, but Sussex has 8 of those within 10 minutes of downtown, making it the “Covered Bridge Capital of Atlantic Canada”. The Kings County Covered Bridge Festival is held here each July, but if you visit during the tourist season, stop at one of the Tourist Information Centres to pick-up a map showing all the local Covered Bridges, and bring your camera.
Sussex is nicknamed Dairytown and is known as the “Dairy Center of the Maritimes”; the reason is obvious when you look in any direction. Farms dot the landscape of Sussex Farm and its outlying areas, and there are even some operating within the town’s boundaries. It’s not uncommon to see tractors and other farm equipment traveling in town or on local roads, especially during fall harvest or haying seasons. Sussex really is an agricultural center, besides the poultry and dairy farms, pastures of cattle, sheep and horses, a livestock auction is held in town every Wednesday, and it's even home to the NB Agriculture Museum.
Overlooking Sussex, Dairytown Products Limited turns New Brunswick milk into award-winning butter, and also operates “Mrs. Dunsters”, a bakery famous for its donuts.
Just east of town in the community of Penobsquis the Potash Corporation of Saskatchewan operates an underground salt and potash mine. A mine may not seem to have much in common with farming, but potash is a key ingredient in fertilizer.
Camp Sussex, (which is now the Sussex Industrial Park), housed Camp Sussex Mural - Sussex, NBand trained most of the army personnel who were dispatched overseas during the Second World War. The 8th Hussars Regiment is headquartered here and hundreds of veterans return each year to see the town that they called home during training. There is a Military Museum in the Sussex Train Station with lots of history about the part Camp Sussex played, and as part of the Sussex Mural Project, a mural commemorating Camp Sussex has been painted downtown.
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