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Located at the head of the Bay of Fundy adjacent to the Tantramar Marshes, 11.61 km E of Dorchester : Sackville Parish, Westmorland County: first settled by Acadians, then by New England Planters, then by settlers from Yorkshire County, England, and finally by Loyalists: first called Tantramar: William Francis Ganong identified the Mi'kmaq name for Tantramar as Adamaak': PO Sackville from 1837: in 1866 it was a community with about 150 resident families: in 1871 it had a population of 1,500: in 1898 Sackville was a seaport, a port of entry, junction on the Intercolonial Railway, headquarters for the New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island Railway and a village with 24 stores, 3 hotels, 2 iron foundries, 3 boot and shoe factories, 4 harness manufacturers, 1 foundry and machine shop, 2 woodworking factories, 1 electric light and telephone plant, 3 carriage factories, 2 sawmills, 1 post office, 2 tanneries, 1 grist mill, 8 churches and a population of about 2,500: Sackville was incorporated as a town in 1903: Sackville is the home of Mount Allison University, established in 1839, which was the first university in the Commonwealth to grant a degree to a woman, Annie Grace Lockhart (1855-1916).