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“The more you know about the past the better prepared you are for the future.” Theodore Roosevelt
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Grade 5 Trip to Cheshire Hall Plantation
The Turks and Caicos Island is renowned for its beautiful beaches and lovely warm climate. The beauty often over shadows the realities of its rich past. The islands were inhabited first by a race of Lucayan Indians long before any Europeans set foot on the islands. They lived active lives and strive on the resources that nature offered on the island. Evidence of their existence were seen in pottery and craft in caves and the remains of a rear paddle used to row their canoes.Students reaching out to the Past in order to appreciate the Present
Upon the arrival of the Europeans, the diversification of ethnicities was set in motion. This led into a new era of structure which surrounded an economy driven by slaves working in the past industries of salt and cotton.![Cheshire Hall Plantation Cheshire Hall Plantation](http://www.internationalschooltci.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/Grade-5-Cheshire-Hall-6-1280x852-300x199.jpg)
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The reality is that what the Turks and Caicos is today is as a result of what it was then. Human evolution is clearly stated here as to how far a society has come and progressively where it is heading.
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