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Stabroek, Guyana

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Country
  
Guyana

Established
  
1782

City
  
Georgetown

Area
  
65 ha

Stabroek, Guyana

Hotels
  
Sleepin Internatio Hotel, Millenium Manor Hotel, The Opus Hotel - an Ascend H

Stabroek was the name of Georgetown, Guyana, between 1784 and 1812.

Map of Stabroek, Georgetown, Guyana

The town was established in 1782 during a brief occupation by the French of the Dutch colony of Demerara. The original name of Longchamps was changed to Stabroek in 1784, after Nicholaas Geelvinck (1732 — 1787), Lord of Stabroek, the then President of the Dutch West India Company. The city's name changed again in 1812 when, under British rule, it became Georgetown. A ward of the city, one fourth of a mile broad and one mile long, retains the name Stabroek.

Brickdam, Stabroek's main street, was paved with bricks and made of burnt earth until 1921 when it was paved over for the arrival of the Prince of Wales. The upper side of Brickdam was once lined with palm trees.

The old name of the city is still reflected in Georgetown's main market, Stabroek Market, which has existed on or near its present location since the 18th century, and the newspaper Stabroek News, established in 1986.

References

Stabroek, Guyana Wikipedia