Location: Werk-en-Rust, GeorgetownClassification: Commemorative MonumentPeriod/ Year Built: 2010 Dr Walter Rodney; a pioneering social advocate who became a voice for the under-represented and the disenfranchised was intellectually gifted. In 1960, after graduating first in his class at queen’s college, he proceeds to the university of the West Indies in Jamaica. At the age of 24, …
Location: Mahaica District, East Coast Demerara Classification: Civil Landscape Period/ Year Built: Planted circa 1986 Historical Background / Description: The Half-Way Tree is a silk cotton tree (also called the Kumaka or Koomaka) located near the centre of the Georgetown Rosignol Highway at Perseverance in the Mahaica district. A previous tree, which fell circa 1985 …
Location: Mahaica District, East Coast Demerara Classification: Civil Infrastructure Period/ Year Built: 19th century Historical Background / Description: The Mahaica Railway Bridge is located within the district of Mahaica and crosses the Mahaica River. The railway bridge was built to accommodate the railway trail that spanned from Georgetown to Rosignol. This lattice girder steel bridge …
Location: Mahaica District, East Coast Demerara Classification: Historic Settlement Period/ Year Built: Established 1896 Historical Background / Description: Helena is located 38.5 kilometres (23.91 miles) from Georgetown, in the District of Mahaica on the East Coast of Demerara. The community was established in 1896, as the British government’s third attempt of establishing a settlement scheme …
Location: Mahaica District, East Coast Demerara Classification: Commemorative Monument Period/ Year Built: 2008 Historical Background / Description: Sir James Douglas was born in British Guiana on August 15, 1803. He was the son of Scottish man, Mr. John Douglas and Barbadian mulatto woman, Ms. Martha Ann Telfer. During his early years, he lived on his …
Location: Victoria, East Coast Demerara Classification: Religious Period/ Year Built: Established 1845, rebuilt early 2000s Historical Background / Description: Wilberforce Congregational Church is located on Middle Walk, Victoria, East Coast Demerara. The community of Victoria has the distinction of being the first village in the country to be bought by former slaves in 1839. The …
Location: Victoria, Demerara Classification: Historic Settlement Period/ Year Built: Established 1839 Historical Background / Description: The community of Victoria has the distinction of being the first village to be bought and established by former slaves in British Guiana. This act, carried out by the ex-slaves, paved the way for the birth of what was known …
Location: Enmore, East Coast Demerara Classification: Commemorative Monument Period/ Year Built: 1977 Historical Background / Description: On April 22, 1948, approximately 1,200 estate workers from the plantations of Enmore, Non Pariel, Lusignan, Mon Repos, La Bonne Intention (LBI), Vryheid’s Lust and Ogle initiated a strike action to express their disapproval against the ‘cut and load’ …
Location: Beterverwagting, East Coast Demerara Classification: Religious Period/ Year Built: 1875 Historical Background / Description: St. Peter’s Roman Catholic Church is located on Beterverwagting Main Road and St. Peter’s Street in the community of Beterverwagting which is commonly referred to as ‘BV’. Prior to 1862, there were no catholic chapels / churches on the East …
Location: Beterverwagting, East Coast Demerara Classification: Commemorative Monument Period/ Year Built: 1996 Historical Background / Description: The freeing of slaves throughout the British colonies seem realistic when the Emancipation Bill was approved in Great Britain on August 18, 1833. The final Act took effect on August 1, 1834, and this day was declared a public …
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