Bodden Town (village)

Bodden Town is a town with 10,341 inhabitants ( as of 2010) in the Cayman Islands, so it is one of the British overseas territory. It is located on the island of Grand Cayman.

Bodden Town was founded as the first settlement of the island of Grand Cayman, under the name South Side. For a long time it was also the seat of government of the Cayman Islands. She lay on a natural harbor at the time, which was protected by a coral reef.

In 1773 visited a land surveyor in the British Navy, George Gauld, the city, which was renamed about that time in Bodden Town. It is thought that this happened because many residents had the last name Bodden, who formed an important family. At that time, there were about 200 people, about half of the island's population. The resident in Bodden Town Governor William Bodden had in his tenure from 1798 to 1823 the first streets, religious sites, forts and build ships. Attacks on the city so protected are not known. In the 1830s the first jail was built.

In the course of time, however, Bodden Town lost its importance. The trade of the island was now rather more in the East End or in Hog Sty Bay George Town (Cayman Islands), also because the port Bodden Towns was silted up because of several Hurricanes.

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Localities

In Bodden Town, among others, several caves, the Pirates Caves are called. It is also home to the historic Mission House and the Guard House Hill, where a guard house for the defense, on water and on land, stood.

Sports

The city maintains its own football club, founded in 1970, the Bodden Town FC. The home games of the association found in Haig instead Bodden Stadium, which is designed for 1500 spectators.