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The long road to Mayaro

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Sunday, March 17, 2013
In 1870 the great English writer Charles Kingsley visited Trinidad and sketched the Bande L’Est leading to Mayaro.

Mayaro was originally settled by French immigrants and their slaves following the Cedula of Population in 1783. Prominent names like Radix, Frontin and Mahon grew cotton and later sugar.


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