The Saba Conservation Foundation reports that he new Mary’s Point (Palmetto Point) trail is almost finished!

Palmetto Point was the first settlement formed on Saba in the early-17th Century (c. 1629AD). The first inhabitants had links to pirates from Jamaica! In the last part of the 19th Century it became Mary’s Point because of a woman named Mary Simmons (born Zeegers) who had a large number of children remaining there. In 1934, due to heavy erosion in the area, residents of Mary’s Point were relocated to the Promised Land. The houses were taken down completely, apart from the basements and rebuilt at their new location.