Type of Attraction: Historic Site
Summary:Plymouth was the site of one of Tobago's earliest communities.
Description: Plymouth was the site of one of Tobago's earliest communities, settled by the Dutch in 1633. They were driven out three years later by Spaniards from Trinidad; however, in 1654 a group of Courlanders (nowadays, Latvians) succeeded in establishing themselves in the region and constructing a fort. They in turn were driven out by the Dutch four years later; only a plaque remains to commemorate their brief tenure, put up by a group of Latvians who still return to Plymouth each year, in memoriam. In Plymouth, the ruins of Fort James (c. 1680) offer a wide-angle, windswept view of the west coast. The other tourist imperative is the Mystery Tombstone, whose ambiguous 18th-century epitaph is still the source of much speculation. Its subject, young Betty Stiven, apparently was "a Mother without knowing it and a Wife without letting her husband know it except by her kind indulgence to him." You figure it out!
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