Saladoid

In 1806, British Governor Thomas Hislop gave the reforested “Saladoid” land to Lopinot who established the largest cocoa plantation in the island and named it La Reconnaissance.

Amerindian settlement of Barbados dates to about the 4th to 7th centuries AD, by a group known as the Saladoid-Barrancoid.

Around 1000 B.C., the ceramic -using and agriculturalist Saladoid people came to the islands, migrating up the archipelago from the banks of the Orinoco River in Venezuela.