New Winthorpes

New Winthorpes
New Winthorpes
Coordinates	17 ° 8 '48 "  N , 61 ° 48' 47"  W Coordinates: 17 ° 8 '48 "  N , 61 ° 48' 47"  W.
Basic data
Country	Antigua and Barbuda
island	Antigua
Parish	St. George
Enumeration District	40100  North 40200  South 40300  East
Residents	882 (2001)
founding	April 2, 1942

New Winthorpes is a place in Saint Georges Parish on the Caribbean island of Antigua , in the state of Antigua and Barbuda .

Location and landscape

New Winthorpes is located in the northern part of the island, 4 kilometers northeast of downtown Saint John’s , northwest of the airport , in the Northern Hills on a hill.

The place has around 900 inhabitants and around 370 households. It includes the North census districts  (approx. 200 inhabitants, 40100); South  (approx. 400 PE, 40200) and East  (approx. 270 PE, 40300).

Today New Winthorpes is largely overgrown with its neighboring villages in the south, while the wetland extends behind Jabberwock in the north . the largest undeveloped natural area in the north of the island.

Neighboring locations and locations:

Cedar Grove ( St. John's )	Hodges Bay ( St. John's )
Cedar Valley ( St. John's )		Coolidge
Cedar Valley Gardens Clare Hall ( St. John's )	Barnes Hill	Airport

History and infrastructure

The place was created by the construction of the American Coolidge Air Force Base during World War II. The Americans wanted a submarine defense base on Antigua, for which the North Sound as a shallow, sheltered bay was ideal. An airport was agreed with the British government, which was still responsible at the time, for air support, with a location at Cape Barnacle Point . The proposed land comprised mostly sugar cane fields, bushland or wetlands, but also the village of Winthorpes (named after the estate of the Winthorpe family, who were among the first settlers on the island). Its inhabitants were resettled.

The resettlement caused bigger problems at the time. The Americans promised a modern model village. Today's Fitches Creek south of Winthorpes would have been up for discussion at St. George's Parish Church , but that was too swampy for the villagers; They also refused to move to the south of the island. Thereupon the Americans erected a fence around the area, which the residents could only leave with special passports. There was unrest and serious incidents. Ultimately, the Americans decided on a piece of land near Barnes Hill ( Blizzard and Thibou-Jarvis property ). Due to disagreements between the US military and the British civil administration, both of which felt responsible for it, and the village elders, who wanted to design the development plan according to their ideas but did not come to a conclusion, the village was not built at all, but the residents moved because of their unpleasant situation around independently, partly by transporting their huts on horse-drawn vehicles. The place name was also controversial, but the villagers enforced New Winthorpes ('New Winthorpes') according to their ideas. April 2nd, 1942, is considered to be the founding date of the place. However, the new residential area had no infrastructure whatsoever, due to its hillside location, not even water, and the distances to the well, the church and the school were far. Fishing also had to be given up, and the assigned gardens were secluded in Cassada Garden . A larger cistern for New Winthorpes and Barnes Hill was not built until later.

Today the place has a primary school (New Winthorpes Primary) and three churches, New Winthropes Wesleyan Holiness  Church , Seventh Day Adventist  Church and a Pilgrim Holiness Church , as well as a sports field (Lambert Playing Field) .

The first modern wind power plant on the island, which is rich in windmills in its history, is also located to the west of the hill (120 kW).

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 ( pdf , ab.gov.ag, there P. 42 - longer loading time).
2. ↑ Roger de Peiza (arr.): Antigua and Barbuda National ICT Household Survey , September 29, 2008, Appendix A Detailed List of Enumeration Districts by Parish: St. Paul . P. 34 ( pdf , ab.gov.ag, there p. 39).
3. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g} Susan Lowes: The US Bases in Antigua and the New Winthorpes Story. (No longer available online.) In: columbia.edu. Teachers College / Columbia University, archived from the original on March 11, 2014 ; Retrieved on March 14, 2014 (English, especially section The New Winthorpes Story ; also on antiguahistory.net ). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.