Middleton (Bay of Fundy and Annapolis Valley, B0S 1P0)
1. Bloomington Your Host(s): Canada Post, - Leave a Public Review
In Annapolis County on the side of the Nictaux River, 15 km SE of Middleton on Wheelock Road, named for landowner Elias Wheelock. Early settlers were Jesse Viditi and John Hoofman. The name Bloomington was suggested by Elias Grimes of Torbrook.
2. Brooklyn (Corner) (Middleton) Your Host(s): Canada Post, - Leave a Public Review
Likely named for natural features, 'lyn' being a waterfall. This area was part of Cornwallis T. which was granted to New England settlers in 1759.
3. Moshers Corner Your Host(s): Canada Post, - Leave a Public Review
Named for settlers who came here in the mid-1800s.
4. Nictaux Falls Your Host(s): Canada Post, - Leave a Public Review
The name is an anglicized version of Niktak, 'the forks of a river.' Major Nathaniel Parker built Rudolph Hease House here between 1765-70.
5. Outram Your Host(s): Canada Post, - Leave a Public Review
The Haley family settled here before 1837 and the place was first called Havelock. The present name is believed to have been given to honour a Capt. Outram, who was a prominent Nova Scotia sailor of the early 1900s.
6. Spa Springs Your Host(s): Canada Post, - Leave a Public Review
First called Salem but changed its name when mineral springs were developed in 1817. At that time Wilmot Spa Springs opened, catering to those wanting to “take the waters.”
7. Torbrook Your Host(s): Canada Post, - Leave a Public Review
At one time this area was called Nictaux, from the old English, meaning 'brook coming out of a hill.'
8. Wilmot Your Host(s): Canada Post, - Leave a Public Review
Irishman Joseph Neily settled near here in 1768. The place was first called Farmington. It was later named to honour Montagu Wilmot, who was Lt.-Gov. from 1763 to his death in 1766.
  9. Big Molly Upsim Lake Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  10. Cloud Lake Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  11. Cloud Lake Wilderness Area Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  12. Douglas Road Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  13. Gates Mountain Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  14. Joe Simon Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  15. Nictaux Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  16. Nictaux South Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  17. Nictaux West Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  18. Torbrook Nature Reserve Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  19. Torbrook West Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  20. Cottage Cove (Margaretsville, 12km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  21. East Margaretsville (Margaretsville, 12km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  22. Forest Glade (Margaretsville, 12km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
23. Margaretsville (Margaretsville, 12km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
This was the site of the summer home of Sir Brenton Halliburton (1775-1860), chief justice of Nova Scotia from 1833-60.
24. Port George (Margaretsville, 12km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
First called Goolwagopskooch, ‘haunt of the hooded seals’. It was settled in the 1760s by members of the New England Planter migration.
25. Prince Albert (Margaretsville, 12km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
W. H. Thorne settled in the early 1800s. Believed to be named for Queen Victoria's Prince Consort.
26. Stronach Mountain (Margaretsville, 12km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
Named for George Stronach from Glasgow, who came to Nova Scotia in 1760, worked for Brig.-Gen. Ruggles for a time and was paid off in land.
  27. Victoria Vale (Margaretsville, 12km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  28. Albany (Lawrencetown, 10km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
29. Albany Cross (Lawrencetown, 10km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
From 1801-04, Phineas Millidge surveyed this area and laid out lots. He was the son of Loyalist Thomas Millidge (1735-1816), who prior to the Revolution had been surveyor general and a member of the NJ Assembly.
30. Alpena (Lawrencetown, 10km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
Settlement started around 1806 and the name is believed to have been taken from a US community.
31. Brickton (Lawrencetown, 10km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
In the mid-1800s brickmaking was a prosperous industry here. In 1874 a covered bridge was built across the Annapolis River on Hanley Mountain Road.
  32. Central Clarence (Lawrencetown, 10km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
33. Clarence (Lawrencetown, 10km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
The first settlers in the early 1800s were Henry Barks, Samuel Elliott, Francis Jackson and William Marshall. First called Back Settlement.
  34. Clarence East (Lawrencetown, 10km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  35. Clarence West (Lawrencetown, 10km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  36. East Inglisville (Lawrencetown, 10km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
37. Inglisville (Lawrencetown, 10km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
Land was granted here as early as 1759, but settlement likely began around the turn of the century. Believed to have been named for Bishop Charles Inglis.
38. Lawrencetown (Lawrencetown, 10km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
Philip Richardson had been living on the W side of the Annapolis River at nearby Richardson's Landing when he received his land grant in 1765.
  39. McGill Lake Wilderness Area (Lawrencetown, 10km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
40. Mount Hanley (Lawrencetown, 10km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
Settled by disbanded soldiers around 1785 and named for one of them, though the spelling changed through a number of early names: Handley Mountain, Hanley Mountain, Handly Mountain and Mount Hanly, until 1870 when the present name was used and survived.