Stabroek, Guyana

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Stabroek was established by the French in 1782 under the name La Nouvelle Ville on the Company's reserve and was named by the Dutch after Nicholaas Geelvinck (1732 — 1787), Lord of Stabroek, the then President of the Dutch West India Company in 1784.

This ward of the city of Georgetown has an oblong form being one fourth of a mile broad and one mile long.

Brickdam, Stabroek's main street, was paved with bricks and made of burnt earth until 1921 when it was paved over for the arrival of the Prince of Wales (King Edward VII). The upper side of Brickdam was once lined with palm trees, planted by Mr. Richard M Jones.