This plan reinforces the interaction between the management of marshlands and the activities and industries of the Town of Sackville. The thirty-five lots of the Lower Mill Creek Body of Marsh are intersected by the Inter-Colonial Railway, the New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island Railway, and various streets of Sackville’s central business district. The presence of the Public Wharf, the reference to Shipyard Road, and the spur line of the Inter-Colonial Railway to the wharf are all testimony to the extent to which the Tantramar economy faced the sea in the 1890 and the transport of agricultural products, lumber from the uplands, and manufactured goods from Sackville’s foundries all passed through this area. Increasingly, the area of the Lower Mill Creek Marsh was also succumbing to industrial, light commercial and residential use. By the early twentieth century, the dyke along the edge of the Tantramar River was important not so much for the protection of marshland for agricultural production as for the protection of business interests in Sackville’s industrial and commercial community.