Lulu Town

Lulu Town, also known as Lulu Ville, is a now uninhabited, former settlement on Navassa Island, claimed by both the United States and neighbouring Haiti, in the Windward Passage.

Navassa Island was claimed for the United States on September 19, 1857, by Peter Duncan, an American sea captain, under the Guano Islands Act of August 18, 1856.

[1] The modest settlement was created to house both mine workers and supervisors whose goal was the rich deposits of guano found on Navassa.

This resource, gathered mainly from the interior of the island, was stored in Lulu Town for later shipment to the United States.

In 1901 the Navassa Phosphate Co. filed for bankruptcy and abandoned Lulu Town and rest of the island.