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132 whims. Parrsboro is the terminus for the Cumberland Railway which traverses a coal mining country to Springhill Junction, and there joins the Intercolonial main line.

In 1767, Benjamin Franklin commissioned "Mad Anthony Wayne" to survey land about the site of Parrsboro, but eventually sent a brig-full of emigrants to Pictou County instead.

, 66 miles, via Dominion Atlantic Railway. The intervening country is diversified with apple orchards and with winding streams that drain the fertile champaign of the Annapolis Valley. At Aylesford, the first Bishop Inglis had his seat on an estate called Clearmont. Middleton is on the Annapolis River. Near-by are the Nictaux Falls of local fame, the station being on the Halifax and Southwestern Railway (Lunenburg—Bridgewater—New Germany—Middleton branch) which crosses the line of the Dominion Atlantic at Middleton and proceeds down the west side of Annapolis Basin to Port Wade, on Digby Gut.

via Granville, 38 miles. An accommodation train runs Mondays and Fridays only.

Bridgetown is a thriving port on the Annapolis River. Fourteen miles beyond is Annapolis, at the head of the Basin.

, 20 miles by Dominion Atlantic.