Cambridge is an unincorporated community on the

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in Kings County,

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, located 12 kilometres west of

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. It is administratively part of the village of Cornwallis Square. According to one source, the community was named after

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. while another holds it was named for

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History

The community first appears on maps about 1795. A large estate by the Marshall Family along the old post road (later Highway No. 1) was the first major farm in the area. The first school in 1867, followed by successively larger schools including one of the province's first consolidated rural high schools, Central Kings Rural High in 1952. A separate part of the village grew up around the railway north of Highway No. 1, known until the late 20th century as "Cambridge Station" The arrival of the

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in 1869 stimulated trade and farming. The first apple warehouse was built in 1885, one of the first in Nova Scotia, joined by two others and an apple evaporator and canning plant. A Mi'kmaw reserve was founded just north of the station in 1880 and is today known as the Annapolis Valley First Nation. Railway service ended in January 1990 when the Dominion Atlantic Railway was abandoned west of Coldbrook, Nova Scotia and the tracks were removed in March 1990.

Today

Cambridge is home to an elementary school (Cambridge and District Elementary), a regional high school ( Central Kings Rural High), and the Kings County Christian School. It is also technically home to the Waterville/Kings County Municipal Airport and Waterville

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tire plant. Cambridge is also home to the Annapolis Valley First Nation Reserve which was formally known as Cambridge Indian Reserve No.32.

Demographics

In the

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conducted by

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, Cambridge had a population of 703 living in 280 of its 288 total private dwellings, a change of from its 2016 population of 867. With a land area of , it had a population density of in 2021.

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* * * Designated places in Nova Scotia Communities in Kings County, Nova Scotia Unincorporated communities in Nova Scotia {{KingsNS-geo-stub