The History of San Salvador

The native Lucayan Indians are known to have settled at Pigeon Creek where they met the fate of extinction, as did those in the other islands of The Bahamas.

Following Columbus’ landfall in 1492, the British took control of the islands and pirates reigned supreme in the early 1700s. By 1783, the Loyalists fled the American Revolution and established cotton plantations in San Salvador; the ruins of which are still visible today.