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Inside of St Johns  
   

Inside of St Johns

St. John's Church & Sunbury Plantation House

September 10th 2008
Day #2 - Sep 3rd. Our next stop would be St. John's Church. St. John's Parish Church is the first church of St. John that is presumed to have been a simple wooden building, but its date is unknown. The parish along with St. George, was carved out of St.Michael in 1640-1641. But successive churches were badly damaged by the hurricane of 1675, the Great Hurricane of 1780, and finally destroyed ... read more
Central America Caribbean » Barbados » Bathsheba

Barbadian or Bajan (colloquial) Flag The island was uninhabited when first settled by the British in 1627. Slaves worked the sugar plantations established on the island until 1834 when slavery was abolished. The economy remained heavily dependent on sugar, rum, and molasses production t... ... read more
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