Freetown, Antigua and Barbuda

Freetown, officially known as FreeTown,[3] is a town in Antigua. It is located in the southeast of the island, on a peninsula between Willoughby Bay to the south and Nonsuch Bay to the north.

Freetown
Village
FreeTown
Freetown is located in Antigua and Barbuda
Freetown
Freetown
Coordinates: 17°03′N 61°42′W
CountryAntigua and Barbuda
IslandAntigua
ParishSaint Philip Parish
Government
  TypeVillage Council[1] (possibly dissolved)[2]
Area
  Total1 km2 (0.4 sq mi)
Population
 (2011)
  Total609
DemonymFreetownian
Time zoneUTC-4 (AST)

History

The settlement arose in the course of the abolition of slavery in 1834, when numerous freedmen settled here on Far Hill (Farr's hill),[4] where there was a public water pond.[5] After Liberta, Freetown was the second free village and therefore has its name ("free town").[6][7]

The place received further move as early as 1843. After the great Caribbean earthquake, the settlement on Willoughby Bay (Bridgetown) was abandoned, the inhabitants there moved partly to Bethesda, mostly to Freetown. The Methodists, who had been based in Bethesda since 1813, had built a small chapel and a school in Freetown in 1841 when they moved the congregation from Willoughby Bay to Bethesda.[8] This was also destroyed, and a larger mission house was built by 1847.[8]

The place grew very strongly - around 1855 it was named as the largest on the island and the population was given as "estimated 2–3000".[9] In 1882, the church was rebuilt and dedicated to the "glory of God".[8] Until the 1960s, the Methodists ran the only school on site, then a state school was established.[8]

With the economic upheaval brought on by the 20th century's end to colonialism and independence, the population gradually declined throughout the nineteenth century. The area is now a modest, self-sufficient agricultural community with a developed structure, but it contrasts sharply with the eastern noble, contained hotel and villa area between Half Moon Bay and Mill Reef, which is popular with tourists from other countries.[10] Only the road from Newfield leads to the village, which then terminates at the Mill-Reef region at the tip of the peninsula. To reach Nonsuch Bay and Harmony Hall, a terrible road splits off.

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

Geography

It is a sparsely populated area with one beach – Half Moon Bay with its beautiful white and pink sand. Freetown has an area of 1 square kilometre.[11]

Climate

Freetown is often ranked as the coldest town in Antigua and Barbuda, often achieving low temperatures of 15 degrees Celsius in the winter.[12][13][14][15]

Demographics

Freetown has four enumeration districts.

  • 60600 FreeTown-North
  • 60700 FreeTown-West
  • 60800 FreeTown-South

Census Data

Ethnic[16]
Q48 Ethnic Counts %
African descendent 587 96.33%
Mixed (Other) 8 1.35%
Hispanic 1 0.19%
Other 2 0.39%
Don't know/Not stated 11 1.74%
Total 609 100.00%
Religion[17]
Q49 Religion Counts %
Adventist 78 12.87%
Anglican 185 30.60%
Baptist 16 2.73%
Church of God 38 6.24%
Evangelical 5 0.78%
Jehovah Witness 1 0.19%
Methodist 165 27.29%
Moravian 4 0.58%
Nazarene 2 0.39%
Pentecostal 15 2.53%
Rastafarian 6 0.97%
Roman Catholic 6 0.97%
Weslyan Holiness 53 8.77%
Other 13 2.14%
Don't know/Not stated 18 2.92%
Total 603 100.00%
NotApp : 6
Country of birth[18]
Q58. Country of birth Counts %
Antigua and Barbuda 513 84.17%
Other Caribbean countries 2 0.39%
Canada 2 0.39%
Dominica 12 1.93%
Dominican Republic 1 0.19%
Guyana 16 2.70%
Jamaica 20 3.28%
Monsterrat 1 0.19%
St. Lucia 2 0.39%
St. Vincent and the Grenadines 12 1.93%
Trinidad and Tobago 1 0.19%
United Kingdom 1 0.19%
USA 19 3.09%
USVI United States Virgin Islands 1 0.19%
Not Stated 5 0.77%
Total 609 100.00%
Country of Citizenship[19]
Q71 Country of Citizenship 1 Counts %
Antigua and Barbuda 557 91.51%
Dominica 2 0.39%
Dominican Republic 1 0.19%
Guyana 12 1.93%
Jamaica 16 2.70%
St. Lucia 1 0.19%
St. Vincent and the Grenadines 11 1.74%
Trinidad and Tobago 1 0.19%
United Kingdom 1 0.19%
USA 5 0.77%
Not Stated 1 0.19%
Total 609 100.00%
Country of Second Citizenship[20]
Q71 Country of Citizenship 2 Counts %
Other Caribbean countries 4 6.25%
Canada 2 4.17%
Dominica 9 16.67%
Guyana 8 14.58%
Jamaica 5 8.33%
Monsterrat 2 4.17%
St. Lucia 1 2.08%
St. Vincent and the Grenadines 2 4.17%
United Kingdom 1 2.08%
USA 21 37.50%
Total 56 100.00%
NotApp : 553

References

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  10. The spatial dichotomy is well illustrated by the juxtaposition of Freetown, an impoverished local settlement, with the opulent tourist ghetto of Mill Reef
    . Zitat David B. Weaver (November 1988), Koninklijk Nederlands Aardrijkskundig Genootschap, Frank van Oort (ed.), "The evolution of a 'plantation' tourism landscape on the caribbean island of Antigua", Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie, vol. 79, no. 5, p. 328, doi:10.1111/j.1467-9663.1988.tb01318.x, ISSN 1467-9663 ganzer Artikel S. 319–331; Übersetzung Wikipedia; Abstract, wiley.com; Mill Reef ist heute aber verfallen (TESG) vgl. auch Genivar: Karte 6.15 Accessability. S. 147 (PDF, S. 165, Markierung No public access).
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