History

Moser River is on Nova Scotia's eastern shore, approximately an hour and a half by car, east of Halifax; Nova Scotia's capital city. It is located at the head of Necum Teuch (pronounced Neecom -Taw) Bay and protected by the Bay of Islands. It is five miles from the Halifax - Guysborough county line.

It was once called Necum Teuch River but was changed after the Moser family received grants and settled there. The native name was Noogoomkeak, meaning soft, sand place. Henry Moser, Sr. and his wife, Hannah, came to Nova Scotia from Luxemburg and Holland, about 1751 and was settled on the river by 1809. He received grants of land there in 1809 or 1813. He was a direct descendant of the Protestants who settled in Lunenburg county in the mid - 1700's.

Moser River was mainly a fishing, farming and shipbuilding community in the early and mid-ninteenth century. Towards the end of the nineteenth century and into the twentieth centuries, several lumber and sawmills such as Moser River Lumber Company, Albion Lumber Company, and Necum Teuch Lumber Company were built in the Moser River area.

In 1911 the village had a postal and money order office, five stores, two hotels, Baptist and Presbyterian churches, connections with a stage coach and a weekly steamer to Halifax, telephone service, saw and planing mills, and extensive lumbering operations, as well as private residences. Electrical power came to Moser River in 1941.