Kemptown, Nova Scotia

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Kemptown is a rural community in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia, located in Colchester County. The area which became Kemptown was included within the Philadelphia grant of 1765. [1]

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References

  1. Patterson, George (1877). A History of the County of Pictou, Nova Scotia. Montreal: Dawson Brothers. p. 53.