Massacre River (Dominica)
Naming
The town of Massacre, Dominica, which runs along the river, was named by the French after a massacre of Caribs carried out by the English that occurred in the area in 1674.{{cite web |date=2009-09-11 |title=Lennox Honychurch's A-to-Z of Dominica's Heritage: Massacre |url=http://www.lennoxhonychurch.com/heritage.cfm?Id=115 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090827065216/http://lennoxhonychurch.com/heritage.cfm?Id=115 |archivedate=2009-08-27 |publisher=Lennox Honychurch}} The massacre occurred in a settlement that was established by Thomas “Carib” Warner, the Kittitian-born son of the English colonizer Sir Thomas Warner and a Kalinago woman from Dominica. Warner was murdered by his own English half-brother, Phillip Warner. Following his murder, the people of the village he established were massacred. That village is now the present site of the village of Massacre.{{Cite web |last=Honeychurch |first=Lennox |title=Carib Warner |url=http://divisionofculture.gov.dm/resource-information2/national-figures/carib-warner |access-date=June 8, 2023 |website=Division of Culture. Government of the Commonwealth of Dominica}}
See also
References
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External links
- [http://www.dominica.gov.dm/images/dominica_map.jpg Map of Dominica]
- [http://earth-info.nga.mil/gns/html/index.html GEOnet Names Server]
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20090109203132/http://www.sam.usace.army.mil/en/wra/N_Caribbean/N%20CARIBBEAN%20WRA%201%20DEC%202004.pdf Water Resources Assessment of Dominica, Antigua and Barbuda, and St. Kitts and Nevis]
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