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Freetown
Village
FreeTown
Freetown
Coordinates: 17°03′N 61°42′W / 17.050°N 61.700°W / 17.050; -61.700
Country	Antigua and Barbuda
Island	Antigua
Parish	Saint Philip Parish
Government
• Type	Village Council (possibly dissolved)
Area
• Total	1 km (0.4 sq mi)
Population
• Total	609
Demonym	Freetownian
Time zone	UTC-4 (AST)

Freetown, officially known as FreeTown, is a town in Antigua. It is located in the southeast of the island, on a peninsula between Willoughby Bay to the south and Nonsuch Bay to the north.

History

The settlement arose in the course of the abolition of slavery in 1834, when numerous freedmen settled here on Far Hill (Farr's hill), where there was a public water pond. After Liberta, Freetown was the second free village and therefore has its name ("free town").

The place received further move as early as 1843. After the great Caribbean earthquake, the settlement on Willoughby Bay (Bridgetown) was abandoned, the inhabitants there moved partly to Bethesda, mostly to Freetown. The Methodists, who had been based in Bethesda since 1813, had built a small chapel and a school in Freetown in 1841 when they moved the congregation from Willoughby Bay to Bethesda. This was also destroyed, and a larger mission house was built by 1847.

The place grew very strongly - around 1855 it was named as the largest on the island and the population was given as "estimated 2–3000". In 1882, the church was rebuilt and dedicated to the "glory of God". Until the 1960s, the Methodists ran the only school on site, then a state school was established.

With the economic upheaval brought on by the 20th century's end to colonialism and independence, the population gradually declined throughout the nineteenth century. The area is now a modest, self-sufficient agricultural community with a developed structure, but it contrasts sharply with the eastern noble, contained hotel and villa area between Half Moon Bay and Mill Reef, which is popular with tourists from other countries. Only the road from Newfield leads to the village, which then terminates at the Mill-Reef region at the tip of the peninsula. To reach Nonsuch Bay and Harmony Hall, a terrible road splits off.

Today, the town has a small hospital (Freetown Clinic), with the Crossroads Centre, an alcohol and drug rehabilitation center, a police station (Freetown Police Station), a primary school (Freetown Primary School), as well as a church, the Methodist Hall of the Methodist Church in the Caribbean and Americas.

Geography

It is a sparsely populated area with one beach – Half Moon Bay with its beautiful white and pink sand. Freetown has an area of 1 square kilometre.

Climate

Freetown is often ranked as the coldest town in Antigua and Barbuda, often achieving low temperatures of 15 degrees Celsius in the winter.

Demographics

Freetown has four enumeration districts.

• 60600 FreeTown-North
• 60700 FreeTown-West
• 60800 FreeTown-South

Census data

References

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5. vgl. Karte Antigua. Robert Baker, Thomas Jefferys, 1775 (Datei:Antigua 1775.jpg)
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10. The spatial dichotomy is well illustrated by the juxtaposition of Freetown, an impoverished local settlement, with the opulent tourist ghetto of Mill Reef

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v t e Populated places of Antigua and Barbuda
Largest city: St. John's
Saint George	Barnes Hill Carlisle Coolidge Crosbies Fitches Creek Gunthorpes New Winthorpes Osbourn Paynters Piggotts Sea View Farm Sugar Factory Upper Lightfoot
Saint John	Adelin Belmont Bendals Blue Waters Branns Hamlet Buckleys Cedar Grove Cedar Valley Clare Hall Clarkes Hill Crosbies Emanuel Five Islands Golden Grove Greenbay Herberts Nut Grove Ottos Potters Radio Range Skyline St. Claire St. John's St. Johnston Tomlinson Upper Gamble's Villa Yeptons
Saint Mary	Bishops Blubber Valley Bolans Cades Bay Cedar Hall Claremont Crabs Hill Ebenezer Glebe Jennings John Hughes Johnsons Point New Division Old Road Orange Valley Mill Sawcolts Seaforths Urlings Yorks
Saint Paul	Bethesda Burkes Christian Hill Delaps Dieppe Bay English Harbour Falmouth Liberta Mathews Pattersons Swetes Table Hill Gardens
Saint Peter	Diamonds Freemans Mercers Creek Pares Parham Vernons
Saint Philip	Collins Ffryes Freetown Glanvilles Montpelier Newfield Seatons St. Phillip's Willikies
Barbuda	Codrington Barbuda-North Barbuda-South Barbuda-East
Redonda	n/a

• Populated places in Antigua and Barbuda
• Saint Philip Parish, Antigua and Barbuda