New Zion is a Canadian unincorporated community in Northfield Parish, Sunbury County, New Brunswick. [1] [2]
New Zion was settled in 1860 and by 1866 it became a farming and coal mining settlement [3] of about three families (Cokeley / Coakley, Corey, and Sowers, [4] however New Zion was in Sheffield Parish by at least as early as 1851 [4] as Northfield Parish was not established until 1857. James H. Sowers was the first postmaster of New Zion, with the first post office established in 1875. [5]