History Jaques Salignac established 500-acre plantation, La Bourgade, about 1759 after having received approval for a grant by the Court of Policy. It was renamed Plantation La Bourgade Cummingsburg after it was purchased in 1807 by Scotsman Thomas Cumming , who laid out streets and lots, where lots east of Main Street were for houses, and lots along the Demerara River were for commercial use. Cumming sold off these lots to merchants for storehouses. A church was established in Cummingsburg by the London Missionary Society by 1814. Dorothy Thomas, also known as Miss Doll, was considered the head of the "colored class", who was considered wealthy and had the "deportment of an empress". She owned property in Cummingsburg and by 1832 had 51 enslaved people, which were employed by here as huckstresses. Thomas lived on her cotton estate called Kensington on the coast and in Georgetown in a "splendidly furnished house". Valerie Rodway House, on 94 Carmichael Street, Cummingsburg, Georgetown, Guyana. The building - previously the home of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and an annex to the Governor's house - was commissioned by the Guyanese government in honour of the composer, Valerie Rodway, on February 12, 2019. A town two miles in circumference, it was regularly arranged and had fresh water reservoirs that were stocked with small fish. Luke M. Hill later had Lotus lilies and Victoria Amazonica planted in the bodies of water. At the end of the 19th century, neighborhoods throughout Georgetown were cleared of old, dilapidated slum housing. In Cummingsburg, housing was lost for the expansion of the Promenade Gardens, where in 1897, the Main Street reservoir was filled up and made into a walkway called the Queen Victoria Promenade, in honor of the queen's Diamond Jubilee. It is now named Main Street Avenue. Other reservoirs were covered as well at a later date . The bodies of water that became Main Street and Cummings Street are also referred to as canals, connected with other canals, that flowed to the Demerara River .
History Jaques Salignac established 500-acre plantation, La Bourgade, about 1759 after having received approval for a grant by the Court of Policy. It was renamed Plantation La Bourgade Cummingsburg after it was purchased in 1807 by Scotsman Thomas Cumming . A church was established in Cummingsburg by the London Missionary Society by 1814. Dorothy Thomas, also known as Miss Doll, was considered the head of the "colored class", who was considered wealthy and had the "deportment of an empress". She owned property in Cummingsburg and by 1832 had 51 enslaved people, which were employed by here as huckstresses. Thomas lived on her cotton estate called Kensington on the coast and in Georgetown in a "splendidly furnished house". Valerie Rodway House, on 94 Carmichael Street, Cummingsburg, Georgetown, Guyana. The building - previously the home of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and an annex to the Governor's house - was commissioned by the Guyanese government in honour of the composer, Valerie Rodway, on February 12, 2019. A town two miles in circumference, it was regularly arranged and had fresh water reservoirs that were stocked with small fish. Luke M. Hill later had Lotus lilies and Victoria Amazonica planted in the bodies of water. At the end of the 19th century, neighborhoods throughout Georgetown were cleared of old, dilapidated slum housing. In Cummingsburg, housing was lost for the expansion of the Promenade Gardens, where in 1897, the Main Street reservoir was filled up and made into a walkway called the Queen Victoria Promenade, in honor of the queen's Diamond Jubilee. It is now named Main Street Avenue. Other reservoirs were covered as well at a later date .
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, who laid out streets and lots, where lots east of Main Street were for houses, and lots along the Demerara River were for commercial use. Cumming sold off these lots to merchants for storehouses.
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. The bodies of water that became Main Street and Cummings Street are also referred to as canals, connected with other canals, that flowed to the Demerara River