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Ottley's Village is a settlement in the north of Saint Kitts in Saint Kitts and Nevis. It is located inland from the north coast on the road between Cayon and Tabernacle . 17°22′N 62°45′W / 17.367°N 62.750°W / 17.367; -
The Saint Mary Cayon Parish was historically one of the main industrial areas in Saint Kitts, home to the island's cotton ginnery, which was opened in 1901. It made history as its home estate, Spooner's Estate, became the first one in the Caribbean to successfully change from sugar production to cotton. The factory remained open until its ...
Spooner's Estate is a historical cotton and sugar plantation site on Saint Kitts island of Saint Kitts and Nevis, in the Lesser Antilles of the Caribbean.. Its site is located near the southern entrance to the town of Cayon in Saint Mary Cayon Parish.
George Astaphan, born in St. Kitts, was a physician who gave steroids to the sprinter Ben Johnson. Imruh Bakari, born in St. Kitts, film maker and writer. Hutchens C. Bishop, pre-civil-rights-era clergyman who led the 1917 Negro Silent Protest Parade in New York, U.S. [25] Robert Bradshaw, first Premier of Saint Kitts and Nevis.
The parish capital of Saint John Figtree is the settlement known as Church Ground. The parish church, Fig Tree Church, is notable for being the location where the registration of the marriage between young Nevisian plantation family widow Frances Nisbet and Horatio Nelson was carried out, in 1787, when Nelson was still a young sea captain.
The St. Kitts Sugar Producers Association built a central factory for sugar refining and a railway for transportation in 1912. The London Electric Theatre opened on St. Kitts in 1917. A telephone system was built on St. Kitts in 1896 and included Nevis by 1913. Nevis' first automobile arrived in 1912, a Ford Model T.
The Basseterre Valley is a low-lying valley on the island of Saint Kitts, surrounded by the Canada Hills and Olivees Mountain. It contains Basseterre, the capital of Saint Kitts and Nevis. The valley has two rivers or ghauts [1] named Westbourne Ghaut and College Ghaut. [2] The Basseterre Valley was occupied in 1627 by the French and populated.
British West Indies in 1900 BWI in red and pink (blue islands are other territories with English as an official language). The British West Indies (BWI) were the territories in the West Indies under British rule, including Anguilla, the Cayman Islands, the Turks and Caicos Islands, Montserrat, the British Virgin Islands, Bermuda, Antigua and Barbuda, the Bahamas, Barbados, Dominica, Grenada ...