MAKE A MEME View Large Image Holetown Monument plaque, Saint James, Barbados-1.jpg plaque Located in Holetown Saint James Barbados The monument commemorates the initial landing in 1625 and the initial settlement in 1627 Due to an unknown circumstance 1625 was ...
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Keywords: Holetown Monument plaque, Saint James, Barbados-1.jpg plaque Located in Holetown Saint James Barbados The monument commemorates the initial landing in 1625 and the initial settlement in 1627 Due to an unknown circumstance 1625 was erroneously recorded historically in Barbados as 1605 Therefore the plaque reads 1605 “ 1905 This monument commemorates the tercentenary of the first landing of Englishmen from the Olive Blossom near this spot about the month of July 1605 They erected a cross and inscribed on a tree the words James K of E and this island thus constituting possession for The Crown of England in whose uninterrupted possession this island has remained The corner stone was laid on the 30th November 1905 by His Excellency Sir Gilbert T Carter R N K C M G the Governor of the island in the presence of members of the legislature and a large concourse of the inhabitants The cost of erection was defrayed by public subscription of the inhabitants A second plaque reads This plaque was erected in the eleventh year of Barbados independence to mark the three-hundred-and-fiftieth anniversary of the first permanent settlement of the island in February 1627 own CaribDigita 2010-11-07 thumb Holetown Monument as seen along Highway 1 Photos by User CaribDigita/Barbados Relations of Barbados and the United Kingdom Holetown Monuments and memorials in Barbados Plaques in Barbados 2010 in Barbados
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