Goldenville is a small community located near to Sherbrooke, Nova Scotia in the Municipality of the District of St. Mary's.
Nelson Nickerson found gold in the Goldenville area in August, 1861 and Zeba Hewitt built one of the first houses in the village that fall.
An Orange Order Lodge Hall was built in 1869 and the lower part was used as a schoolroom.
Gold production in Goldenville from 1862 to 1941 is reported to have been 209,383.3 oz., the best producer in Nova Scotia.
In 2018 the Government of Nova Scotia initiated the process of closing the former gold mining site that is heavily contaminated with arsenic and mercury.