{"id":751664,"date":"2026-06-21T14:05:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-21T14:05:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/751664\/"},"modified":"2026-06-21T14:05:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-21T14:05:10","slug":"new-history-board-highlights-historic-tuckers-lane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/751664\/","title":{"rendered":"New History Board Highlights Historic Tucker\u2019s Lane"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t&#13;<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/tuckers-lane.png\" class=\"header-image\" alt=\"New History Board Highlights Historic Tucker's Lane\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kenny Tucker, Keith C. Thomas -Chair CHS, Barb Bishop &#8211; Board Member CHS (via Carbonear Heritage Society Facebook)<\/p>\n<p>The Carbonear Heritage Society has unveiled the latest addition to its History Board project \u2013 this time highlighting the history of Tucker\u2019s Lane. <\/p>\n<p>The story board, the seventh to be erected in the town, is the result of two years of research and consultation with residents of the area. <\/p>\n<p>It was unveiled with Kenny Tucker \u2013 a family member still living on the lane \u2013 on hand. <\/p>\n<p>The first residents of the lane were Ambrose Tucker and his wife Amelia Soper who came from England and settled in the area in the early 1800s. <\/p>\n<p>Their son, John Tucker, operated a blacksmith and forge near Rorke\u2019s Coal Sheds on Water Street.  It was destroyed by fire in the early 1900s.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; Kenny Tucker, Keith C. Thomas -Chair CHS, Barb Bishop &#8211; Board Member CHS (via Carbonear Heritage Society&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":751665,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[45,49,48],"class_list":["post-751664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-ca","tag-canada"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/751664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=751664"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/751664\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/751665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=751664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=751664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=751664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}