Editing Wolfville (section)

===British rule===
[[File:Wolfville, Nova Scotia (1897).jpg|thumb|right|Wolfville, 1897]]

In around 1760, the British authorities in Nova Scotia made several [[Township (Nova Scotia)|township]] plots of land available in the Annapolis Valley for colonization by English-speaking settlers. '''Horton Township''' was created in the Grand-Pré/Wolfville Area. Because of pressure on agricultural lands in [[New England]], Anglophone farmers moved north in search of fertile land at a reasonable price. It is thought that between 1760 and 1789, more than 8,000 people known as [[New England Planters]] immigrated to the land around the Annapolis Valley. In 1763, there were 154 families living in the area of Horton Township.

The New England Planters set up a primarily agricultural economy, exporting cattle, potatoes, and grain, and later apples, as well as developing lumbering and shipbuilding. They settled and re-used the same dyke-lands as the Acadians had used before them, repairing and later expanding the agricultural dykes. They developed a major expansion in 1808, the three-mile-long Wickwire Dyke, which connected the Wolfville and Grand Pre dykes. This allowed the agricultural development of an additional 8,000 acres.<ref>Sherman Blakeney, ''Sods, Soils and Spades'', McGill Queens University Press (2004) p. 140</ref> The town site for Horton was initially surveyed in the Grand-Pré area at [[Hortonville, Nova Scotia|Horton Landing]] near the mouth of the [[Gaspereau River (Nova Scotia)|Gaspereau River]].  However, the town developed around the sheltered harbour on the [[Cornwallis River]] at Wolfville, at first known as Mud Creek.

The first official record of a Baptist church in Canada was that of the Horton Baptist Church (now Wolfville), established on October 29, 1778. The church was established with the assistance of the New Light evangelist [[Henry Alline]].  The Baptist movement remained strong in the area. In 1838 [[Acadia University]] was founded as a Baptist college.<ref>Bumstead, J. M. ''Henry Alline, 1748–1784''. Lancelot Press, Hantsport, NS. 1984. p.62</ref>

In 1830, the town of Mud Creek changed its name to Wolfville, in honour of [[Elisha DeWolf]], the town's postmaster at the time.<ref>{{cite web|url= http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=A1ARTA0008671|title= Canadian Encyclopedia|access-date= January 9, 2008|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20070816100800/http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=A1ARTA0008671|archive-date= August 16, 2007|url-status= dead|df= mdy-all}}</ref> In the mid-19th century, Wolfville was renowned as the world's smallest port.<ref>{{cite web |title=TOWN OF WOLFVILLE MUNICIPAL PLANNING STRATEGY JULY 2018 |url=https://www.wolfville.ca/component/com_docman/Itemid,354/alias,2142-mps-full-document-masterversion-draft-2-pdf/category_slug,planning/view,download/ |publisher=Town of Wolfville |access-date=10 July 2019}}</ref><!-- By population or area? -->  The town became part of Canada with [[Confederation of Canada|Confederation]] in 1867.