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Grace Bay history - learn what once happend

On or about AD 750 the first inhabitants arrived on the shores of the Turks & Caicos Islands. These were the Lucayans or, in their Arawak language, the Lukkunu cairi which has the translation of "Island Men". Their arrival in the Turks & Caicos Islands was the final stage of their long migration taking several thousand years from their original home on the banks of the Orinoco River long before the first Europeans discovered the New World or Venezuela. For those of us interested in history a visit to the Turks & Caicos Museum on the capital island of Grand Turk is essential. There among many interesting artifacts on display you will see a circa 900 year old canoe paddle in testimony to the prowess of the Lucayans as a seafaring people. One has to remember that it was to be another 700 years before Christopher Columbus arrived in the Turks and Caicos Islands to lay his claim of discovery whereas the Lucayans had traveled great distances many centuries before from South America. By the 1520`s not one Lucayan remained alive and their unique civilization was lost to the world. The European discovery of the islands was fatal to these islands as it later proved to be in Polynesia when Capt. Cook discovered those islands several centuries later. Newly introduced diseases, enslavement and hard work in the mines of Hispaniola (now known as Haiti and the Dominican Republic) led to their extinction within just one generation. Between the years 1492 until 1706 the Turks & Caicos Islands were sparsely populated. The Bermudians came to rake the salt and then take back to Bermuda and over the years more than 1,000 ships were wrecked in the waters surrounding the Turks & Caicos Islands. Today a number of those wrecks are freely explored by scuba divers who suggest the waters of the Turks & Caicos Islands are one of the best dive locations in the entire world. Today after almost 1200 years of recorded history, the Turks & Caicos Islands stand on the threshold of an exciting future boasting the fastest growing economy in the Caribbean basin coupled with strictly controlled development to protect the islands heritage as a pristine sanctuary for both the local people and tourists to enjoy for the next Millennium. The Turks & Caicos Islands are indeed Beautiful by Nature.

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