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Historical Markers in Turks and Caicos Islands

 
Crofton Coverley House and Marker, along Front Street image, Touch for more information
By Mike Stroud, February 11, 2011
Crofton Coverley House and Marker, along Front Street
1 British Overseas Territories, Turks and Caicos Islands, Grand Turk, Cockburn Town — 20 — Crofton Coverley House
Mr. William Burton Astwood built this house in the 1870, yet he never lived in it himself. Currently it is occupied by his grandson, Mr.XXXX Crofton, who is the island's oldest citizen at the age of 91. Mr. Crofton has lived there all his married . . . Map (db m40296) HM
2 British Overseas Territories, Turks and Caicos Islands, Grand Turk, Cockburn Town — 21 — Free Mason's Lodge
This Lodge was set up in 1855 by the first president of the Turks & Caicos Islands, Mr. Frederick Forth, and was called the 'Turks Islands Forth Lodge.' Mr. Forth, himself, was a member and local legend has it that President Forth may have . . . Map (db m40274) HM
3 British Overseas Territories, Turks and Caicos Islands, Grand Turk, Cockburn Town — Grand Turk Historic Lighthouse
During the colonial days, hundreds of shipwrecks occured off Grand Turk due to the shallow reef off its northern coast. Because shipwrecks were so common, vessels began refusing to call for salt cargoes, the mainstay of the Grand Turk economy. Both . . . Map (db m40367) HM
4 British Overseas Territories, Turks and Caicos Islands, Grand Turk, Cockburn Town — Grand Turk Historic Lighthouse
During the Lighthouse's first forty years of use, wrecks continued along the northern coast. Ship captains complained that the light was too dim or not lit at all. Some believe that the dimming of the light was done intentionally to cause ship . . . Map (db m40454) HM
5 British Overseas Territories, Turks and Caicos Islands, Grand Turk, Cockburn Town — Grand Turk: The Original Columbus Landfall ?
The exact location of Christopher Columbus' first landfall in the New World in 1492 has been debated for centuries. Columbus' original journal of his first voyage to the New World is lost, and we will likely never know for sure. Recent theories . . . Map (db m40544) HM
6 British Overseas Territories, Turks and Caicos Islands, Grand Turk, Cockburn Town — 19 — Grant Building
Also owned by the Grant family, this building that dates back to the 1890s was probably acquired at the same time as the Iron Building. This building was a meeting place for the various workmen and merchants of the town where they used to drink and . . . Map (db m40297) HM
7 British Overseas Territories, Turks and Caicos Islands, Grand Turk, Cockburn Town — Horatio Nelson Lookout Point
Lookout Point is named in honor of British Admiral Horatio Nelson who fought for Grand Turk's liberation from French occupants in March 1783. The French occupied Grand Turk for a short time and famed Horatio Nelson led a daring but failed attack to . . . Map (db m40663) HM
8 British Overseas Territories, Turks and Caicos Islands, Grand Turk, Cockburn Town — Lighthouse Keeper's Residence & Bermuda Kitchen — Grand Turk —
The Grand Turk Lighthouse had two keepers, the Principal and the Assistant. It is believed that before 1890 the keepers may have lived on location at the site of the present-day Pavilion. Meals were prepared in the separate Bermuda Kitchen, typical . . . Map (db m40793) HM
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9 British Overseas Territories, Turks and Caicos Islands, Grand Turk, Cockburn Town — 23 — Miramar Reported missing
This house, also owned by the Grant family, was never lived in as a family home. It always was rented out primarily to the managers and employees of Cable and Wireless prior to the building of the Cable & Wireless houses on the site of Mr. B.C. . . . Map (db m40288) HM
10 British Overseas Territories, Turks and Caicos Islands, Grand Turk, Cockburn Town — Splashdown Grand Turk
[Exhibit #1 and #2] Replica of Friendship 7 capsule that carried John Glenn on his historic orbital flight of Feb. 20, 1962. The capsule was 9 feet long and 6 feet across at its base. At reentry it weighed about 3,000 pounds. Space . . . Map (db m80425) HM
11 British Overseas Territories, Turks and Caicos Islands, Grand Turk, Cockburn Town — #13 — St. Mary’s Anglican Pro-Cathedral Church
This church was first built as a ‘chapel of ease’ in 1900 to accommodate the parishioners of Cockburn Town. At that time, St. Thomas’ Church, which was the first church in Grand Turk, was quite a distance from the town and made it particularly . . . Map (db m30674) HM
12 British Overseas Territories, Turks and Caicos Islands, Grand Turk, Cockburn Town — #22 — Sunnyside
This house, which always has been known as Sunnyside, was originally located on a cay off South Caicos called Sail Rock Cay. It was built in the 1870s and has the distinction of being one of the most famous houses on Front Street. It was moved board . . . Map (db m30404) HM
13 British Overseas Territories, Turks and Caicos Islands, Grand Turk, Cockburn Town — The History of the West( Grand Turk )
The western side of Grand Turk is the leeward side of the island. This is the side protected from high winds and storms. Because of this, it was the primary anchorage for the sailing vessels that came and went from Grand Turk for hundreds of years. . . . Map (db m40351) HM
14 British Overseas Territories, Turks and Caicos Islands, Grand Turk, Cockburn Town — The Northeast Reef — (Grand Turk) —
The Northeast Reef is a shallow reef lying to the northeast of Grand Turk and running 2.8 miles into the sea. The Reef lies in the Turks Island Passage, which has been located along trade routes from Jamaica, Cuba and Hispaniola back to Europe since . . . Map (db m40602) HM
15 British Overseas Territories, Turks and Caicos Islands, Grand Turk, Cockburn Town — 17 — Timco(Turks Islands Importers Ltd.)
Built in the 1860s, this building started life as a salt warehouse belonging to the Stubbs family who were the foremost plantation owners in the Caicos Islands and one of the foremost salt families of South Caicos and Grand Turk. On Grand Turk they . . . Map (db m40293) HM
16 British Overseas Territories, Turks and Caicos Islands, Grand Turk, Cockburn Town — #16 — Todds
Todds, which was built in the 1880's, not only is the oldest variety store in the island, but also the only one still trading under its almost-original name and owned by the same family. The store was first owned by the Stubbs family who were the . . . Map (db m31453) HM
17 British Overseas Territories, Turks and Caicos Islands, Grand Turk, Cockburn Town — Trouvadore Shipwreck
In 1841 a Brigantine ship sailing under Spanish papers left Africa with an illegal cargo of 193 Africans. The ship was the Trouvadore and it was sailing for Cuba, where the Africans were to be enslaved and put to work on sugar plantations. . . . Map (db m40764) HM
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18 British Overseas Territories, Turks and Caicos Islands, Grand Turk, Cockburn Town — U.S. Naval Facility— Grand Turk —
In 1954 the U.S. Navy established a hydrographic research station on this northern promontory of Grand Turk, overlooking the strategic passage from the Atlantic Ocean. Quonset huts were erected to accommodate eleven officers and one-hundred enlisted . . . Map (db m40833) HM
19 British Overseas Territories, Turks and Caicos Islands, Grand Turk, Cockburn Town — #14 — Victoria Public Library
The Library was built in 1887 - the year of Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee - on the old parade ground used by the local militia, yet it was not completed until 1889. It was reputed to have cost UK £568. Public events such as cultural concerts are . . . Map (db m30354) HM
20 British Overseas Territories, Turks and Caicos Islands, Providenciales, The Bight Settlement — Edward Thatch
Nick Name Blackbeard Ship Queen Anne's Revenge Background Blackbeard's early life is not well documented, but he was likely born between 1680 and 1685 to a wealthy family in Bristol. An important seaport in . . . Map (db m219861) HM
21 British Overseas Territories, Turks and Caicos Islands, Providenciales, The Bight Settlement — Shipwrecked
On the southern fringe of the Caicos Bank, blow the azure waters you se before you, rests an ancient ship known only as the 'Molasses Reef Wreck'. The oldest shipwreck ever found in the Western Hemisphere. Having succumbed to the ocean in . . . Map (db m219631) HM
22 British Overseas Territories, Turks and Caicos Islands, Providenciales, The Bight Settlement — Welcome to Port Royal
Once called "the richest and wickedest city in the world", Port Royal became the headquarters city for Pirates in the Caribbean. To it came men of all races. Treasures of silks, doubloons and gold from Spanish ships, looted on the high seas by . . . Map (db m219778) HM
 
 
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