Falmouth (/ˈfɔːlməθ/ FAWL-məth)[2] is an unincorporated community in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia, located along the Avon River in Hants County between Mount Denson and Windsor.

Famille and Notre Dame de l'Assumption) that made up the district to the ground and took prisoners to Boston.

By 1760, the land, which was left vacant by the deportation of the Acadians, began to be resettled by New England Planters.

Amongst these new settlers was a young Henry Alline, who in the 1770s would start a Great Awakening religious revival.

His New Lights ideas and followers quickly spread across the region and into northeastern New England.