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/Home/Historical Studies/History/Regional History/Central America/Caribbean /Grenada Grenada History Votes:0 PO Box 3119, St. James, Barbados, W.I. Tel: 1 (246) 434 3434 E-mail: info@skyviews.com | To Navigation Bar | The History of Grenada, Carriacou and Petit Martinique Grenada, like many of its island neighbours, owes is origins to violent volcanic activity - great fissures in the earth's crust were created when Caribbean Plate forced the oceanic Atlantic Plate to plunge towards the earth's hot mantle. There were small reminders of such activity in the volcanic disturbances of 1902 and 1920. Humans were probably the last living organisms to appear and they arrived as long as 3 thousand years ago or more in the form of several different South American tribes - the Calvignoid, the Galibi, the Suazoids and finally, in around 1400, the warlike Caribs. The Cannons at Fort George in the capital of G Read More Go to Site History of Grenada Votes:0 Search The Web! Search The Web! Search The Web! Search The Web! Free Travel Cheap Tickets Auction Newsletter Immigration Affiliate Make Money Grenada HISTORY Before the arrival of Europeans, Grenada was inhabited by Carib Indians who had driven the more peaceful Arawaks from the island. Columbus landed on Grenada in 1498 during his third voyage to the new world. He named the island "Concepcion." The origin of the name "Grenada" is obscure but it is likely that Spanish sailors renamed the island for the city of Granada. By the beginning of the 18th century, the name "Grenada," or "la Grenade" in French, was in common use. Partly because of the Caribs, Grenada remained uncolonized for more than 100 years after its discovery; early English efforts to se Read More Go to Site

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