Bahamas · Bahamas
West End
Grand Bahama's old rum-running port.
- Grand Bahama
- 47,475 (2022)
- Freeport founded
- 1955
Then
- 1920s
West End makes its name as a rum-running port during US Prohibition.
- 1955
Wallace Groves and the government begin building Freeport under the Hawksbill Creek Agreement.
- 2019
Hurricane Dorian strikes as a Category 5 on September 1, damaging nearly half the island's homes.
Now
Tourism carries Grand Bahama. The tide stations are at Settlement Point and Memory Rock on the Little Bahama Bank.
2 tide stations around West End
- Settlement Point, Grand Bahamas Island1.7 mi
- Memory Rock19.8 mi