San Fernando from Pointe a Pierre Trinidad. B.W.I.

Abstract

San Fernando, identifiable in this photograph by the San Fernando or Naparima Hill, dome-shaped with a flattened top on the horizon, is located to the south of Pointe-a-Pierre which is in the middle and foreground here, with much of its land under cultivation. There is a road which bends around the fields near the sea shore and T-shaped electricity poles outline its edge. The body of water on the far right, next to large cylindrical oil storage tanks and coconut trees, is the Gulf of Paria. On the ground between the lakes at right, a maze of pipe lines can be seen. In 1912, the Pointe-a-Pierre area consisted of the thriving sugar estates of Plaisance, Bon Accord, Bonne Aventure, Plein Palais, La Carriere and Concorde. In 1913, the estates were bought by an oil company called Trinidad Leaseholds Limited and used to establish an oil refinery and oil storage deposit.