Plymouths around the world

The Caribbean

New Plymouth: Abaco Islands, The Bahamas

New Plymouth (pop. 500) was founded in 1783 in the aftermath of the American Revolutionary War by loyalists from the Carolinas. Located on the eastern shore of Green Turtle Cay, the largest of the Abaco Islands in the Bahamas, today New Plymouth is a popular holiday resort. The town has a small public library, established during the nineteenth century and one of the first in the Bahamas.

• Information about Green Turtle Cay and New Plymouth, including video clips and an aerial view
• Extensive information about the Abaco Islands

Plymouth: Tobago, West Indies

Amerindians first settled on Tobago in about 6,500 BC, with Europeans moving in from the early part of the seventeenth century. The population of Trinidad and Tobago is about 1.3 million, and that of the smaller island of Tobago about 50,000. Plymouth is a historical town on the north coast of the island, and home to an annual carnival.

Plymouth receives visits from a Bookmobile service run from the nearby town of Scarborough, part of Trinidad and Tobago's National Library and Information System Authority.

• History of Tobago
• Extensive information about Trinidad and Tobago, including library services, from the National Library and Information System Authority of Trinidad and Tobago.