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Burtons
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Burtons, Nova Scotia
Subdivision Truro, Mile 35.06
Next Station East: South Maitland
Next Station West: Doddridge
Facilities & Features
- Burtons Station
- 11 foot Pile trestle over Burtons Brook, Mile 35.14
Description & History
This very small agricultural community, also known as "Burton", is near the source of the File Mile River and was named after two early settlers John and Walter Burton, two early settlers who were granted land in the area in 1829.[1]
Gallery
References & Footnotes
- 1969 Memorandum of General Information, page 22.
- ↑ C. Bruce Fergusson, "Burton", Place-Names and Places of Nova Scotia Nova Scotia Archives (1967), p. 95.
