Massacre, Dominica

Massacre is a town in Saint Paul Parish, Dominica, with about 1,200 inhabitants.

It is located on the central west coast of the island, to the north of the capital, Roseau, on the Massacre River.

The town was named by the French after a massacre of Caribs carried out by the English that occurred in the area in 1674.

[1] The massacre occurred in a settlement that was established by Thomas “Carib” Warner, the Kittitian-born son of the English colonizer Sir Thomas Warner and a Kalinago woman from Dominica.

Following his murder, the people of the village he established were massacred.