Hantsport

{{Infobox settlement | official_name = Hantsport | other_name = | native_name = | nickname = | settlement_type = Community | motto = "The Greater Avonport Area" | image_skyline = | image_caption = | image_flag = | image_seal = Hantsport NS seal.png | image_shield = | image_map = | mapsize = | map_caption = | pushpin_map = Nova Scotia | pushpin_label_position = right | pushpin_map_caption = Location of Hantsport, Nova Scotia | pushpin_mapsize = 275 | subdivision_type = Country | subdivision_name = Canada | subdivision_type1 = Province | subdivision_name1 = Nova Scotia | subdivision_type2 = Regional Municipality | subdivision_name2 = West Hants Regional Municipality | subdivision_type3 = | subdivision_name3 = | subdivision_type4 = | subdivision_name4 = | government_footnotes = | government_type = | leader_title = Councilor | leader_name = Robert (Bobbie) Zwicker | leader_title1 = MLA | leader_name1 = Chuck Porter (PC) | leader_title2 = MP | leader_name2 = Kody Blois (L) | leader_title3 = | leader_name3 = | established_title = Founded | established_date = 1789 | established_title1 = Incorporated | established_date1 = April 25, 1895 | established_title2 = Dissolved | established_date2 = July 1, 2015 | area_magnitude = | unit_pref = | area_footnotes = | area_total_km2 = 2.89 | area_land_km2 = | area_water_km2 = | population_as_of = 2021 | population_footnotes = | population_note = | population_total = 1,542 | population_density_km2 = 532.8 | timezone = AST | utc_offset = −04:00 | timezone_DST = ADT | utc_offset_DST = −03:00 | coordinates = | elevation_footnotes = <!--for references: use Although no Acadians are known to have lived on the lands within the boundary of Hantsport proper, the area was part of the Acadian parish of Paroisse de Sainte Famille (established in 1698). Etienne Rivet and his progeny farmed the nearby marshlands of the Halfway River (currently the boundary between the town and the community of Mount Denson, Nova Scotia) and his son, Etienne, operated a mill on the river near where the marshlands meet the uplands on the town's southern boundary.

After the Expulsion of the Acadians, the Acadian region of Piziquid was formed into the Township of Falmouth. These lands were granted to New England Planters, and officers of the British army. Colonel Henry Denny Denson, a retired British officer, was granted an extensive tract of land (Mount Denson), which included the lands lying north of the Halfway River and south of the Horton Township boundary. In 1789, after Denson's death, his consort and heir, Martha Whitfield, sold Lots Three & Four (the area of Hantsport) to an Edward Barker.