Freetown (Antigua)

Free Town Freetown
Freetown
Coordinates	17 ° 2 '50 "  N , 61 ° 42' 15"  W Coordinates: 17 ° 2 '50 "  N , 61 ° 42' 15"  W.
Basic data
Country	Antigua and Barbuda
island	Antigua
Parish	St. Phillip
Enumeration District	60600  North 60700  West 60800  South
Residents	714 (2001)
founding	1834

Freetown , also written as Free Town , is a place in the Parish of Saint Phillip on the Caribbean island of Antigua , in the state of Antigua and Barbuda .

Location and landscape

Freetown is located in the remote southeast of the island. It is located in the highlands of the peninsula between Nonsuch Bay in the north and Willoughby Bay in the south.

The place has around 700 inhabitants and is - with Willikies - the regional center of St. Phillip's Parish. The surrounding area is partly used for agriculture, partly forest or scrubland.

Neighboring locations and locations:

Newfield	Mont Pellier – Brownes Bay	Mill Reef
St. Phillips		Half Moon Bay
	Willoughby Bay

History and infrastructure

The settlement emerged in the wake of the abolition of slavery in 1834, when numerous freedmen settled here on Far Hill (Farr's hill) , where there was a public water pond. After Liberta , Freetown was the second free village and therefore has its name ('free city').

The place received a further influx as early as 1843. After the great Antilles earthquake , the settlement at Willoughby Bay ( Bridgetown ) was abandoned, the residents there moved partly to Bethesda , mostly to Freetown. The Methodists , who had been in Bethesda since 1813, had a small chapel and school built in Freetown in 1841 when they moved the Congregation from Willoughby Bay to Bethesda. This was also destroyed, and a larger mission house was built by 1847.

The place grew very strongly - around 1855 it is mentioned as the largest on the island and the population is given as "an estimated 2–3000". In 1882 the church was rebuilt and the glory of God ( " Glory of God ordained"). The Methodists ran the only local school until the 1960s, when a state school was established.

With the economic restructuring of the ending colonialism and independence in the course of the 20th century, the population gradually decreased. Today the place is a simple, self-sufficient rural settlement with a grown structure, which stands in stark contrast to the posh, secluded hotel and villa area around Half Moon Bay and Mill Reef, which is located to the east and is frequented by wealthy foreigners . The place can only be reached via the road from Newfield , which then ends in the Mill Reef area at the end of the peninsula. A bad road branches off to Nonsuch Bay and Harmony Hall .

Today the place has a small hospital (Freetown Clinic) , with the Crossroads Center , an alcohol and drug rehabilitation center, a police station (Freetown Police Station) , a primary school (Freetown Primary School) , and a church, the Methodist Hall of the Methodist Church in the Caribbean and Americas .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} National Statistics Office: Census 2001. Volume I: Summary Social, Economic, Demographic, and Housing Characteristics. St. John's, July 2004, Table 8: Population by Enumeration District and Sex. 4. St. Georges. P. 30 f., Ab.gov.ag (PDF - longer loading time; p. 42).
2. ^ “ District Center ”. Genivar Trinidad & Tobago; Ivor Jackson and Associates, Kingdome Consultants Inc. (Assoc.): Sustainable Island Resource Management Zoning Plan for Antigua and Barbuda (including Redonda) . Port of Spain December 2011, 5.2.3 Hierarchical Network of Settlements , esp. Settlement Hierarchy Map , p. 103 ff . ( ab.gov.ag [PDF; accessed on February 22, 2014] there p. 121 ff). ab.gov.ag ( Memento of the original from October 6, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
3. ↑ Desmond Nicholson: Cultural heritage. Villages: Village facts: Freetown . In: antiguahistory.net: Museum of Antigua and Barbuda. Susan Lowes, accessed March 22, 2014 . 
4. ↑ cf. Antigua map . Robert Baker, Thomas Jefferys , 1775 ( File: Antigua 1775.jpg )
5. ↑ then followed Freemans Ville . Sara Louise Kras: Antigua and Barbuda . tape 26 from Cultures of the world . Marshall Cavendish, 2008, ISBN 978-0-7614-2570-0 , The sugarcane era , p. 35 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
6. ^ ^{A b c d e} V. Iothie Wyre: Freetown. Congregations . Methodist Church of Antigua & Barbuda, accessed on March 19, 2014 (English, further details also Bethesda and History: Part 3 The work takes shape ). 
7. ↑ West Indies. Antigua. Extract of a letter from the Rev. Walter Garry, dated Freetown, January 23d, 1855. In: Wesleyan Methodist missionary society (ed.): Missionary notices . [Continued as] The Wesleyan missionary notices . 1855, p. 59 , col. 1 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
8. ↑ “ The spatial dichotomy is well illustrated by the juxtaposition of Freetown, an impoverished local settlement, with the opulent tourist ghetto of Mill Reef ” (German: “The spatial contrast [in land development] is well illustrated in the comparison of Freetown, a poor one local settlement, with the opulent Mill Reef tourism ghetto ”). Quote David B. Weaver: The evolution of a 'plantation' tourism landscape on the caribbean island of Antigua . In: Koninklijk Nederlands Aardrijkskundig Genootschap, Frank van Oort (Ed.): Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie . (TESG). 79, Issue 5, November 1988, ISSN  1467-9663 , pp. 328 , doi : 10.1111 / j.1467-9663.1988.tb01318.x ( limited preview in Google book search - full article pp. 319–331; translation Wikipedia; abstract , wiley.com; Mill Reef is now in disrepair). see. also Genivar: Card 6.15 Accessability. P. 147 (PDF, p. 165, marked No public access ).