When Thomas Cumming, a Scotsman, bought the property, he developed a town plan with residential and commercial lots and streets.

Jaques Salignac established 500-acre plantation, La Bourgade, about 1759 after having received approval for a grant by the Court of Policy.

Thomas lived on her cotton estate called Kensington on the coast and in Georgetown in a "splendidly furnished house".

[3][7] A town two miles in circumference, it was regularly arranged and had fresh water reservoirs that were stocked with small fish.

[3] Andrew Carnegie, a Scottish-American philanthropist and industrialist, provided the money for the construction of a public library in 1909.

[3] By the early 20th century, the ward was populated by Afro-Guyanese, Portuguese, a few of the Indo-Guyanese, and some of the area's few Europeans.