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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMRCD_u-s-naval-facility_Cockburn-Town-Turks-Islands.html
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 enlist…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMRBB_lighthouse-keepers-residence-bermuda-kitchen_Cockburn-Town-Turks-Islands.html
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 seperate Bermuda Kitchen, typica…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMRAJ_trouvadore-shipwreck_Cockburn-Town-Turks-Islands.html
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. Slavery…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMR80_horatio-nelson-lookout-point_Cockburn-Town-Turks-Islands.html
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 t…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMR6L_the-northeast-reef_Cockburn-Town-Turks-Islands.html
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 sin…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMR4Z_grand-turk-the-original-columbus-landfall_Cockburn-Town-Turks-Islands.html
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 theorie…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMR2R_grand-turk-historic-lighthouse_Cockburn-Town-Turks-Islands.html
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 wre…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMR0K_grand-turk-historic-lighthouse_Cockburn-Town-Turks-Islands.html
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. Bot…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMR05_the-history-of-the-west_Cockburn-Town-Turks-Islands.html
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…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMQYS_grant-building_Cockburn-Town-Turks-Islands.html
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 an…
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