Wade's Green Plantation
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Wade's Green Plantation is a ruined planatation on North Caicos, and which is now in the care of the Turks and Caicos National Trust.
This is the best surviving loyalist plantation in the Turks and Caicos Islands, and said to be the best in the Caribbean. The buildings now lie in ruins, set against an enchanting forest background.
The plantation is to be found by Kew, a settlement in the very north-west of the island.
History
Wade’s Green was established by Wade Stubbs in 1798, to grow cotton. Stubbs was awarded 860 acres of land on the island after he lost his property in Florida at the end of the American Revolutionary War: the treaty which ended the ceded Florida to Spain. The plantation was originally called “Bellefield”
Stubbs also called his brother Thomas over to the islands, and he founded Cheshire Hall Plantation on Providenciales, though Wade eventually bought his brother's plantation too.
The plantation today
The Turks and Caicos National Trust acquired the site in the twentieth century, and have used it as a museum site. The end of slavery in the islands has been celebrated here through historical re-enactments.
The plantation has been described as one of the finest examples of the colonial plantation buildings in existence.
Wade's Green Plantation lies within an extensive area of Dry Tropical Forest, which is a conserved habitat for birds and reptiles.
This is the only known location of ship graffiti on North Caicos, in the kitchen building, which suggests that these were drawn during the plantation period, which ended in the 1830s.
See also
Outside links
- Wade's Green Plantation: Turks and Caicos National Trust