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After cooling off inside and exploring the exhibits, we got directions and were on our way. Thankfully I spotted the Bahamas Historical Society Museum, which I wanted to visit anyway. The app worked great for driving around, but it kept directing us to the wrong location for the Queen’s Staircase from our parking spot.Īfter about fifteen frustrating minutes of walking around in circles, my daughter turned to me and said, “Really Mom? We’re walking all over the place just to find a STAIRCASE? Like, aren’t there better things to do in Nassau than wander around in the heat looking for some stupid stairs?”
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Since I’m too cheap to pay for an international plan for my phone, I used a free app called HERE WeGo and downloaded the Bahamas map for offline use. I love Nassau so much that this was the first trip outside of the US that we took post-lockdown, even though cruising hadn’t yet begun in the area!īecause we were staying on the island and not just walking from the cruise port, we had a rental car and had to find a spot to park it, which of course addled my brain because I’m so used to navigating on foot from the port. We visited The Queen’s Staircase in June 2021, just after the Bahamian government lifted its rules about vaccinated foreign travelers needing a COVID test to enter the country, and just before cruise ships were scheduled to make their return to Nassau. The steps were constructed well before the end of her reign (and if you believe that they were built in 1793-94, decades before her birth in 1819). Victoria’s reign ended upon her death in 1901, after reigning for 63 years and seven months.
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Some will tell you that the number of stairs signifies Queen Victoria’s 65 years on the throne, plus “one for the crown”, but this story is absolutely not true. This was in honor of Queen Victoria, who oversaw the abolition of slavery in the British Colonies at the beginning of her reign. The steps weren’t called “The Queen’s Staircase” until sometime in the 19th century. Instead, they may have been completed to make it easier for residents to access Mason’s Addition, a new housing development that was planned and built on the hill in the early 1800s. The steps themselves weren’t fully completed until later, and perhaps had nothing to do with access to Fort Fincastle. Thousands of enslaved people were forced to work on the project, and many lost their lives in the process. However, some sources say that the area was excavated over a longer period-fourteen to sixteen years. This is the story you’ll likely read about in the guidebooks and the one that most tour guides will tell.