Amherst Head
Amherst Head is a community in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia, located in Cumberland County.
According to the book , Amherst Head is "located on the road from Amherst to Pugwash, west of Pugwash. Among the grantees were Dixon and John Trenholm, 1818 and Jonathan Tindell and Barnet Webb, 1820. A way office was established in 1852 and a school built in 1873. The population in 1856 was 156."
In 2005, Heritage Gas built a 17.6 km natural gas pipeline through Amherst Head to Amherst, NS. In 2004, Sunrise Swine Genetics built a hog farm in Amherst Head. The community is rural, with an abundance of natural wildlife.
