Lawrencetown, Annapolis County, Nova Scotia

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Part of a series about Places in Nova Scotia

Lawrencetown is a village within Annapolis County in the Annapolis Valley of Nova Scotia, Canada. As of 2006, the population was 668. Every year at the Lawrencetown Exhibition Grounds, the Annapolis Valley Exhibition is held, which is typically a very large gathering. The town was first settled in 1760 and named after Nova Scotia governor Charles Lawrence.

Lawrencetown is home to Lawrencetown Consolidated School and the Centre of Geographic Sciences (COGS), a branch of the Nova Scotia Community College.

References

External links

* [http://www.lawrencetown.ednet.ns.ca/ Lawrencetown Consolidated School]
* [http://www.lawrencetown.ednet.ns.ca/History_to_1977/front.htm A History of Lawrencetown]