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• First motor vehicle being landed on Saba on March 17th 1947. Driver is Mr. Oliver Zagers.

• Shrubbery being cleared from Flat Point for the first plane landing - 1959

• First plane landing on Saba by pilot Remy F. de Haenen - 1959

• Old village road in Windwardside

• "Spanish Work" group at Hell's Gate.

• Linzey/Blijden Family grating cassava. Saba - 1900.

• 1901 - Croquet Club, Saba. Left to right: Tansy (Gov. Willemsen's sister), William O. Simmons, Amy Heyliger, Hurbert Simmons, Consie Simmons, Florrie Simmons, Gov. Willemsen, Engle H. Simmons, Elaine Simmons-Hassell, Ada Heyliger.

• 1901 - Tennis Club, Saba. Back row: Rich Winfield, Joanna Vanterpool (Mrs. Austin Simmons), Donald Vanterpool, Elaine Simmons, Wallace Simmons. Front row: Evan L. Simmons, Annie Simmons, Mike Simmons, Josie Simmons.

• Saba's road, built by hand

• Old steproad leading from Fort Bay to The Bottom.

• View of Windwardside and Mt. Scenery - 1890.

• Fort Bay in former years - 1906.

• "Landing Cargo. Fort Bay, Saba, D.W.I." - Fort Bay Harbour as it used to be.

• 1897, Saban Dignitaries. Back row: Edward James Simmons, Dr. Christian Pfanstiehl, Sammy Simmons, Lovelace Hassell, Engle Heyliger Simmons (Kings Councillor). Front row: Rev. J. W. Leverock (Anglican), Theodore Heyliger, Governor DeVeer, Lt. Gov. Thomas Holm. Father Mulder (Roman Catholic).

• Cruise ship "Argentina" of which Thomas Simmons of Saba was captain for many years.

• Commodore Thomas Simmons

• Schooner "Maisie Hassell", at the wheel Captain Thomas Hassell, next to him his brother Captain William Benjamin Hassell - 1920.

• Schooner "Three Sisters" belonging to Captain William Benjamin Hassell, in Curacao harbour - 1929.

• Captain 'Freddy' Johnson in the garden of his home on Booby Hill.

• Captain T.C. Vanterpool with his niece Mrs. Estelle Simmons. St. Thomas - 1941.

• Former dwellinghouse of Captain Thomas Charles Vanterpool, now the official residence of Saba's Lt. Governor, is located in The Bottom.

• Schooner "Mayflower" in roadstead of St. Eustatius - 1929.

• Schooner "T.N. Barnsdell" of Captain Ernest Alfred Johnson.

• Captain Laurie Hassell (seated on railing) who at age 19 was captain of the schooner "Mona Marie" - 1936.

• Captain George Holm at the grave of his father, George W.C. Holm in Windwardside, Saba with Mt. Scenery in the background.

This page was last updated on 10/10/2004