Let get down to the Basics of this Island
History
This town was founded by the Dutch in 1689 to help protect there other colonys. By the 1750' s the colony had a population of 5,000 at this time was when the first Huguenot church was build. At this time all 3 church communities were peaceful togther
Time went on as normal the local population slowly grew ,but then during the WW2 in 1943 the Americans build a milatary base very close to the Huguenot communtiy and vastly aided them by the 50's the community had grown to a population of 45,000 . Mainly in the Huguenot communtiy ( the beginning of racasim had began.
Then the spark that ignited the flame happened when a group of Huguenots and Protestant attacked and burned to the ground 5 Roman Catholic shops and raided 11 others in the day know as ' The attack of St.Papal" then 3 mounths later at a wedding between a Huguenot and a Protestant, some Catholics came in and killed the paster,bride , and the groom . This was know as ' The Revenge of the Virgin Mary'
Religion
Roman Catholic -36%
Protestant-32 %
Huguenot-31%
Other or no- 1%
Languages ( First Language)
Dutch- 41 %
French- 27%
English-23%
Other Well Recinized Languages
Flemish 8%
German 1%
Titonasa(native language) -0.25
Nationality
Dutch & Flemish - 54%
French -29 %
American-11 %
German - 3%
Titonasa 1 %
Other 1%
Popultion
1950-45,000
1960-100,000
1970-145,000
1980-173,000
1990-225,000
2000-235,000
RIGHT KNOW 2009 250,000
2010-(PROJECTED) 245,000
