Freetown is a village 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.
History The settlement arose in the course of the abolition of slavery in 1834, when numerous freedmen settled here on Farrs Hill, where there was a public water pond.vgl. Karte Antigua. Robert Baker, Thomas Jefferys, 1775 (Datei:Antigua 1775.jpg) After Liberta, Freetown was the second free village, the origin of its name.dann folgte Freemans Ville. weitere Details auch Bethesda und History: Part 3 The work takes shape The place had a population boom as early as 1843. After the great Caribbean earthquake, the settlement on Willoughby Bay (Bridgetown) was abandoned, the inhabitants there moved to Bethesda and 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. weitere Details auch Bethesda und History: Part 3 The work takes shape This was also destroyed in the quake, and a larger mission house was built by 1847.
The place grew rapidly– around 1855 it was the largest freedmen's village on the island at about two to three thousand people. [Continued as] The Wesleyan missionary notices In 1882, the church was rebuilt and dedicated to the 'glory of God'. Until the 1960s, the Methodists ran the only school on site, then a state school was established.
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.. Zitat ganzer Artikel S. 319–331; Übersetzung Wikipedia; Abstract, wiley.com; Mill Reef ist heute aber verfallen (TESG)
vgl. auch Genivar: Karte 6.15 Accessibility. S. 147 (PDF, S. 165, Markierung No public access). 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), the nearby Crossroads Centre, an alcohol and drug rehabilitation center, a police station, a primary school (Freetown Primary School), as well as a Methodist church.
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.
Climate Freetown is often ranked as the coldest town in Antigua and Barbuda, often achieving low temperatures below 15 degrees Celsius in the winter.
Demographics Freetown has four enumeration districts.
60600 FreeTown-North 60700 FreeTown-West 60800 FreeTown-South
Census data +EthnicQ48 EthnicCounts%African descendent58796.33%Mixed (Other)81.35%Hispanic10.19%Other20.39%Don't know/Not stated111.74%Total609100.00% +ReligionQ49 ReligionCounts%Adventist7812.87%Anglican18530.60%Baptist162.73%Church of God386.24%Evangelical50.78%Jehovah Witness10.19%Methodist16527.29%Moravian40.58%Nazarene20.39%Pentecostal152.53%Rastafarian60.97%Roman Catholic60.97%Weslyan Holiness538.77%Other132.14%Don't know/Not stated182.92%Total603100.00%NotApp :6 +Country of birthQ58. Country of birthCounts%Antigua and Barbuda51384.17%Other Caribbean countries20.39%Canada20.39%Dominica121.93%Dominican Republic10.19%Guyana162.70%Jamaica203.28%Monsterrat10.19%St. Lucia20.39%St. Vincent and the Grenadines121.93%Trinidad and Tobago10.19%United Kingdom10.19%USA193.09%USVI United States Virgin Islands10.19%Not Stated50.77%Total609100.00% +Country of CitizenshipQ71 Country of Citizenship 1Counts%Antigua and Barbuda55791.51%Dominica20.39%Dominican Republic10.19%Guyana121.93%Jamaica162.70%St. Lucia10.19%St. Vincent and the Grenadines111.74%Trinidad and Tobago10.19%United Kingdom10.19%USA50.77%Not Stated10.19%Total609100.00% +Country of Second CitizenshipQ71 Country of Citizenship 2Counts%Other Caribbean countries46.25%Canada24.17%Dominica916.67%Guyana814.58%Jamaica58.33%Monsterrat24.17%St. Lucia12.08%St. Vincent and the Grenadines24.17%United Kingdom12.08%USA2137.50%Total56100.00%NotApp :553
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