Carriacou

 Carriacou is the largest island in the group of the Grenadines in the Caribbean sea.

6,000 people live on the island.

It a beautful place to see the ture carriacou style where the local people are  friendly and living in crime free place where you would not jump up in your bed to be worry. To visit all the rum shop in carriacou is a heven place where is not a busy to live in. If you are goin to Carriacou is the best place to go here before you died. Every should come Carriacou. But people say in USA or UK "Jamacia is the only caribbean island" and this false because they more countries than Jamacia it self. Some Jamacian say "we big and you all the small Islands" I don't like it how they it because the other Caribbean is better than Jamacia. And stop saying Jamacia or Africa. And we are not in Jamacia, we are in Grenada within the Island Carriacou and Petite Martinique.

 

In 100–400 BC The Stone Age Drug Paraphernalia (the Drug was called cohoba) originated in South America and were carried to Carriacou. In 500 BC the First settlers or Amerindians (Caribs) came to Carriacou. Between 500 AD – 1000 AD the First settles or Amerindians (Caribs) came to Carriacou. In 1000 AD the peaceful Arawaks lived on the island.

European discovery

In 1656, Père du Tertre from Guadeloupe visited Carriacou and he was the first French/European person (turtle Fisherman) to visit Carriacou. And in his history of the Antilles he said “The most beautiful of all the little isles is Carriacou...” In the 1700s the cotton, sugar and the Indigo Plantations was established to the island by the English. In the 1700s the supply area with water channel were established in used to direct rain water from the hills for agriculture.

In 1720, Bartholomew Roberts captured a French ship near Carriacou and commandeered it, renaming it the Royal Fortune.

In 1750, the first census of the island was conducted, and there were 199 people (92 Whites, 92 Blacks and 15 Mulattos) living in Carriacou.

Became part of the colonies of Grenada

In 1763 Carriacou was ceded with Grenada to the British (United Kingdom). Before 1769 there was an attempt to produce indigo at the Meldrum Estate. On the 22 June 1770, Captain John Urquhart bought Grand Anse Estate Plantation on the Mortgage. In 1776, the island population was 3,239 (86 Whites and 3,153 slaves) people, not counting the free Blacks and the free Mulattos.

The estate of Cistern began on construction in 1782. In 1783–1793 the Glebe land was belong to the Priest. The estate of Cistern was completed in 1786. In 1788 a plan of Craigston and Meldrum Estates was the property was own by William Urquhart of Craigston. About 1790 there were a ship from Glasgow, Scotland came to Carriacou. In 1790 there were 46 estates in Carriacou.

In 1791, Gun Point (Rapid Point) which had been a division of the Grenadines was made latitude on the island, but the point belonged to Saint Vincent and the rest of Carriacou belonged to Grenada. The Glebe land was the land of Parson in 1793. In 1793 there were 23 estates on the island. In 1793 the Craigston, Meldrum and Prospect estates was the fourth largest landholder on the island of Carriacou. In 1796 the only they were more sailing vessels in Hillsborough Bay was when Sir Ralph Abercromby meeting there to launch an attack on the Spanish. In 1769–1815 the Craigston estate was a cotton plantation. In the 1800s, the Pierrot Mas was first introduced to Carriacou. In 1810 the Belvedere great house was built.

Slavery Abolish

In 1870, Stephen Joseph Perry went in charge of a government expedition to observe a solar eclipse at Carriacou. In 1891 a few wells were sunk below ground water. In 1902 the Harvey Vale was divided into 244 lots.

In 1920 limes were also grown on Carriacou up until the turn of the century, but the production chance was less than the yields transfer in Grenada, lime production was profitable, when many of the groves were abandoned. This well build to provide a constant sources of water for livestock can be seen at Limlair. In 1922, Petite Charles first introduced the Jab Jab (Devil) Mas to Carriacou. The estate of Cistern was bought by George Kent in 1927. In 1941 there was estimated to be at around 4 inches of rainfall per month. The religion Jehovah’s Witnesses was around from 1951. The religion Evangelists was around from 1956. In 1960 Herbert Blaize became the first chief minister of Grenada to come from Carriacou. The telephone system began operating in 1961 on the island of Carriacou.

Bishop's College was the first Secondary School in Carriacou, it was opened in 1964 and the Anglican Church established this school. In 1965, the Carriacou Regatta began. In 1968 Lauriston airport/airstrip was opened.

Grenada independent nation

On October 31, 1975 Carriacou Carib Organization (Big Drum Dance Organization) began. In 1977 Betsy Traylor was the first warden of the Carriacou Museum on Paterson Street. The lime factory (Craigston Great House) was the most historical landmark which was operated up to 1981. In 1983 Nicholas Brathwaite became the first Prime Minister of Grenada. He came from Carriacou. In 1992 there was a Spiritual battle from the first day, bringing Gospel to Windward Church. In 1998 the land use plan for Carriacou and Petite Martinique put it under the 1988 OAS System plan. In 1999 Hurricane Lenny damaged Carriacou.

After 2000

In 2001 the reconstruction of the major commercial road network island-wide was undertaken. In 2005 Hurricane Emily made strong winds and heavy rainfall on the island of Carriacou. In 2008 Rawle Paterson was the first Carriacouan and Caribbean person to receive a top award at a Chinese’s University (the university he went to was University of China, Beijing, China, Asia.) On Tuesday, 27 May 2008 the New National Party (NNP) Grenada make the Largest gathering in Carriacou history at the Digg Playing Field in Harvey Vale and there were 7,000 people (green clad) held at this advent.