Freeport’s First Investor: A then 100 year old Abaco Lumber Company 1946

 

By The Bahamianologist

 

The 1967 Commission of Inquiry into Casino Gambling in The Bahamas is not light reading. But for those willing to sit with its transcript, it begins to illuminate something remarkable — how a single commercial agreement, struck in the colonial twilight of 1955, conjured an entire city out of pine forest and ambition.

That agreement was the Hawksbill Creek Agreement.

That city was Freeport.  Read more>>