Official Name: | Carrolls Corner, Nova Scotia |
Settlement Type: | Rural Community |
Pushpin Map: | Nova Scotia |
Pushpin Label Position: | none |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Type1: | Province |
Subdivision Type2: | Municipality |
Subdivision Name2: | Halifax Regional Municipality |
Established Title: | Settled |
Established Date: | 1843 |
Timezone: | AST |
Utc Offset: | -4 |
Timezone Dst: | ADT |
Utc Offset Dst: | -3 |
Coordinates: | 45.006°N -63.3814°W |
Postal Code Type: | Canadian Postal Code |
Postal Code: | B0N |
Area Code: | 902 |
Blank Name: | Telephone Exchange |
Blank Info: | 758 |
Carroll's Corner is a rural community in the northwestern part of the Halifax Regional Municipality in the Musquodoboit Valley of Nova Scotia, Canada. The community is located along Highway 277 and extends to the North and South along the Milford Road and Antrim Road, respectively. The community was named after its first settler, John Carroll.[1]
The world's largest open pit gypsum mine, owned by National Gypsum Company, is located partially in Carroll's Corner. The discovery of mastodon fossils in the mine in 1991[2] led to the community's annual week-long 'Mastodon Days' celebration in July.