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Caribelle Batik This attractive estate house is located at Romney Manor and is a local artisans' centre. Working with locally-grown, exceptionally fine Sea Island cotton, the artists produce tie-dyed batik and hand-painted creations of all sorts. |
Wingfield Estate and Petroglyphs
The native Carib community inhabited this beautiful part of the island prior to the arrival of the European settlers. The Caribs had been nearly annihilated at Bloody Point here. The native Carib community suffered due to the expansion of the British and the French settlements during mid 17th Century.
The Carib community, along with the forces of Caribs from other islands, prepared an attack on the European settlements. The French and the British combined to launch a pre-emptive attack on the Carib. Consequently, over 2,000 Carib Indians were massacred here at Bloody Point.
The ancient, pre-Columbian history of the island is reflected through the cluster of large boulders marked heavily with petroglyphic symbols and human figures, found at the edge of the estate. Liamuiga or 'fertile land' was the Carib name for the island and in the 1980s; St. Kitts' central mountain was named so. It is a lush, 3792-ft volcanic peak known during the colonial period as Mount Misery.
Half Way Tree Village
Early in 1625, the French arrived here with a wish to set up a colony. Warner and the English had accepted these newcomers and to avoid later disputes, the two groups of European colonists chose the great tamarind tree of Half Way Tree Village to mark the border between the French and British territories on St. Kitts.
This informal border of the colonies was brought to test as the colonies grew and became increasingly prosperous. Several disputes and wars resulted due to this border, like the narrowly averted war during the first decade of the 18th century, when it was discovered that the tamarind had thrown out new roots and in theory extended to the British authority over many of the village's French houses.
