Mosherville is an unincorporated community in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia, located in West Hants Regional Municipality. [1] The first recorded settlement in the area was founded by New England Planter James Mosher and his wife Lydia (Allan) Mosher (c. 1762), originally of Newport, Rhode Island.[ citation needed ]
Mosherville, Hants County is mentioned in Nova Scotia fiction writer Barry Wood's short story "Nowhere to Go" published in England's Postscripts #14 in 2008, as well as in poet Alden Nowlan's poem "The Mosherville Road."[ citation needed ]