Newport (Bay of Fundy and Annapolis Valley, B0N 2A0)
1. Avondale Your Host(s): Canada Post, - Leave a Public Review
The Avon River forms part of the boundary between Hants and Kings Counties and was known by the French as Rivière Pisiquid from the Mi'kmaw word 'Pesegitk.'
2. Belmont, Windsor Your Host(s): Canada Post, - Leave a Public Review
First called Highfield, but changed by Act of Parliament in 1873. The name means 'beautiful mountain' and has been given to at least 25 places in the US Since the original Irish settlers came from NH, it is possible they named the place after Belmont, NH
3. Brooklyn, Windsor Your Host(s): Canada Post, - Leave a Public Review
The Mi'kmaq called this place Nelegakumik meaning 'broken snowshoes.' Settlement started in 1760. The name is descriptive of a stream flowing through a meadow.
4. Mantua Your Host(s): Canada Post, - Leave a Public Review
Named for the birthplace of the poet Virgil in Italy. John Day built an estate here in the early 1760s and named it Mantua. Another part of the estate he called Cremona, the place where Virgil received his education.
5. Miller Creek Your Host(s): Canada Post, - Leave a Public Review
Named for the Miller family. The land here was granted in 1760 to Major George Scott.
6. Mosherville Your Host(s): Canada Post, - Leave a Public Review
The place was first called Middle Kennetcook. In 1768 James Mosher settled here and by 1870 the place was named after him.
7. Stanley (Windsor) Your Host(s): Canada Post, - Leave a Public Review
John Anthony was the first settler here in 1760. The place is named for Lord Frederick Arthur Stanley (1841–1908), governor general of Canada from 1888 to 1893.
8. Sweets Corner Your Host(s): Canada Post, - Leave a Public Review
So named because a Mr. Sweet owned a grocery store here in 1840.
9. Woodville (Windsor) Your Host(s): Canada Post, - Leave a Public Review
Named because it was a village in the woods. It was part of Newport Township which was set up in 1761. In 1830 William Parker petitioned the Assembly for financial assistance in erecting a mill at Woods Settlement.
  10. Ashdale Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  11. Greenfield (Windsor) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  12. McKay Section Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  13. Newport Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  14. Newport Landing Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  15. Pinnacle Hill Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  16. Poplar Grove Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  17. Scotch Village Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  18. Smileys Provincial Park Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  19. South Rawdon Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  20. Union Corner Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
21. Ardoise (Ellershouse, 7km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
The name is French for 'slate’ and refers to slate cliffs in the area. Rev. George Gillmore was given a 500-acre land grant here but found the ridge of shale and Aint difficult to farm, and moved away.
  22. Eagles Nest Nature Reserve (Ellershouse, 7km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
23. Ellershouse (Ellershouse, 7km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
The site was first granted to Rev.John Bryenton in 1765 and was known as the Montague Grant. In 1864 Baron Franz von Ellershausen acquired a grant of 60,000 acres including Panuke and Stillwater Lakes.
24. Gypsum Mines (Ellershouse, 7km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
So named for the gypsum mines or Plaster Quarry. Settlement began in the late 1700s.
25. Hartville (Ellershouse, 7km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
Named for prominent local mill owner H. M. Hart. The settlement was part of a grant made in 1765 to Ann, James, and George Monk.
26. Newport Corner (Ellershouse, 7km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
Before 1761 this place was part of the area known as East Falmouth.
  27. Newport Station (Ellershouse, 7km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  28. Panuke Road (Ellershouse, 7km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
29. St. Croix (Ellershouse, 7km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
Saint Croix, 'Saint Cross,' was named by Acadian settlers. The place was settled in the very early 1800s. David Scott built a carding mill here in 1850.
  30. St. Croix 34 (Ellershouse, 7km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
31. Stillwater (Windsor) (Ellershouse, 7km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
The land around the station was granted to Samuel Cottnam in 1764, escheated and passed on to Rev. George Gillmore in 1786.
32. Centre Burlington (Centre Burlington, 10km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
Settlement began later in the latter 1700s. The name, given in 1867, is a corruption of Bridlington, a town in Yorkshire, England.
33. Cogmagun (River) (Centre Burlington, 10km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
The name is an English version of the Mi'kmaw word Kogumegunuk or Kookemagun, for ‘crooked river.'
  34. Lower Burlington (Centre Burlington, 10km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  35. Petite Bog Nature Reserve (Centre Burlington, 10km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  36. Riverside (Windsor) (Centre Burlington, 10km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  37. Upper Burlington (Centre Burlington, 10km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  38. Armstrong Lake (Windsor, 10km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  39. Card Lake Provincial Park (Windsor, 10km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
40. Currys Corner (Windsor, 10km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
This was an offshoot from the Windsor settlement which began soon after 1760.