Amherst Head is a community in the
Canadian
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province of
Nova Scotia
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Most of the population are native Eng ...
, located in
Cumberland County Cumberland County may refer to:
Australia
* Cumberland County, New South Wales
* the former name of Cumberland Land District, Tasmania, Australia
Canada
*Cumberland County, Nova Scotia
United Kingdom
* Cumberland, historic county
*Cumberla ...
.
According to the boo
Place-Names and Places of Nova Scotia Amherst Head is "located on the road from Amherst to
Pugwash, west of Pugwash. Among the grantees were Dixon and John Trenholm, 1818 and Jonathan Tindell and Barnet Webb, 1820. A way office was established in 1852 and a school built in 1873. The population in 1856 was 156."
In 2005, Heritage Gas built a 17.6 km natural gas pipeline through Amherst Head to Amherst, NS. In 2004, Sunrise Swine Genetics built a
hog farm
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in Amherst Head. The community is rural, with an abundance of natural wildlife.
References
Amherst Head on Destination Nova Scotia Place-Names and Places of Nova ScotiaGoogle map
Communities in Cumberland County, Nova Scotia
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