The Bahamas. Revisited. Re-examined. Re-explained
Rock Sound, Eleuthera was once known as Wreck Sound. It was called Wreck Sound during the ferocious pirate years when untold numbers of ships found themselves literally wrecked in pieces Continue Reading
Beginning with Woodes Rogers, one thing can be said of most, if not all, of the early colonial governors. They came to the Bahama Islands to make money. Why else Continue Reading
British Loyalists, after the American War of Independence, largely, had two choices. Britain offered them refuge in Canada or they could go to the Bahamas. Both choices came with generous Continue Reading
The Slavery Compensation Records for the Bahamas make for interesting and sobering reading. There were 1,109 uncontested claims and 24 contested claims. Lord John Rolle, (claim 960) the famous absentee Continue Reading
P. H. Burns was, in his time, one of the most important men in the Bahamas. Patrick Henry Burns, an American, from Cleveland, Cuyahoga, Ohio, was the first Superintendent of Continue Reading
