[4] Christopher Columbus' first landfall in the Americas was in the Bahamas, but after the Spanish had removed all of the native Lucayans from the archipelago by 1520, they showed little interest in the islands.
Starting in 1666, immigrants, again primarily white, from Bermuda, Jamaica, and elsewhere began settling on New Providence and other islands in the Bahamas.
During and after the war, approximately 1,600 white Loyalist refugees, many with slaves of African descent, settled in the Bahamas.
[7][8] After World War II, greater accessibility to the US mainland led to the rapid growth of industry.
[10] White Bahamians constitute the majority (81.95%) of the district of Spanish Wells, which is located on St. George's Cay and Russell Island, north of Eleuthera.