 First known as the Westerwald ("western forest"), it was called the Dutch ("Deutsch") Village by non-German locals.Some of the passengers of the Foreign Protestant ships settled temporarily in the Dutch Village while they waited for a more permanent settlement in Lunenburg County.A section of the original, old Dutch Village Road, which had been an exit to Highway 102, was renamed "Westerwald Street" in November 2002 in honour of the old settlement.