Trinidad

126 items

These slides of housing and population were taken in Trinidad in 1979.  The majority of the population of Trinidad lives in an east-west orientation in the northern part of the island from Port of Spain, the capital, on the western side to Manzanilla Bay on the eastern side.  A major highway – the Eastern Main Road, connects most of the cities and towns on this axis.  There is now a major freeway that runs the route – the Beetham Highway and the Churchill-Roosevelt Highway, which was not there in 1979.  The bulk of the population, however, is located in or near (more)