Manganese Mines

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Manganese Mines is an unincorporated community in Colchester County, Nova Scotia, about six miles northeast of Truro, between the South Branch North River and the Salmon River. It was settled around 1761 by families from New Hampshire and Massachusetts via Truro and Onslow. The area includes Gittens Lodge, an environmental science centre now run by the Truro campus of the Nova Scotia Community College, and the Manganese Mines Wildlife Management Area. Today, farming is the main industry. The name comes from manganese mining that occurred in the 1880s and 1890s. Lafarge Canada operated a limestone quarry here until 1996, which produced cement.