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Rockville Community


Founding

1760s.


Industry

Fishing; some lumbering; farming


Facts

Picture of Rockville
  • The Baptist church that was built at Chebogue Point in 1843 was moved to Rockville and was renovated and rededicated in 1888.
  • A schoolhouse was built about 1840.

History

  James Robbins settled here in 1762.

  The Mi�kmaq name for Chebogue �Utkubok�, �a spring of water�, included this area. After English settlement it was first known as Lower Chebogue until the citizens chose the newer, more descriptive name of �Rockville�. Another early name was Rocky Nook.



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Sources

Place-names and places of Nova Scotia. Public Archives of Nova Scotia, 1967

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