The Nomenclature of Georgetown. 5] 
Orange Walk—originally a cross dam on Pln. Vlissengen, probably marking 
the first depth of the estate. It is said to have been planted with orange trees 
and went under the name of the Orange Walk dam. In laying out the new 
street a strip of land was left on the west side of the street with the intention 
of planting it with orange trees in order to perpetuate the origin of the name. 
However, the idea was abandoned in view of the difficulty in finding a species 
of orange tree that would not be subject to depredation. 
Oronoque street—a continuation of the line of the Oronoque dam on Pln. 
Thomas, formerly planted with oronoque trees. 
New Garden street.—It was at first intended to establish the Botanic Gardens 
on the vacant land reserved for that purpose immediately to the east of this 
street, hence the name. However, eventually the larger area of land (about 
150 acres) east of the Vlissengen Avenue was selected by the Government and 
purchased from the Vlissengen Commissioners for the purpose of the Gardens, 
the original site being now occupied by the Georgetown Cricket Club and 
Football Ground. 
Vlissengen Avenue—is a Government road forming the present eastern 
boundary of the city, opened up in 1877-78. 
ALBERT Town forms part of Pln. Thomas, and was laid out about the year 
1847, being named after the Prince Consort, though for many years it went by 
the name of Monkey town. 
After the Water street fires, Albert Town was denuded of a great deal of its 
surface soil, it being sold by the lot owners for filling up purposes on the riverside 
premises, and this accounts in great measure for the relative low level of Albert 
Town. 
Nearly all the streets in this district are numbered on the American plan, 
the exceptions being :— 
Lamaha street—a continuation of the street of this name in Cumingsburg, 
the same being continued into Queenstown. The same may be said of Church 
street. 
Light street—named after Henry Light, Governor 1840-47. 
Albert street—after the Prince Consort. Up to the time of laying out of 
Queenstown Ward in 1887, this street was a provision dam planted in plantains 
and cassava. 
QUEENSTOWN : part of Pin. Thomas, area 108 acres. The Town Couneil 
purchased this block of land from the late Mr. Quintin Hogg in 1887 in order to 
protect the town from insanitary pig-pens and other badly conditioned buildings 
allowed to be erected there by the proprietor. Being the Jubilee year of the 
reign of Her late Majesty Queen Victoria, the new ward was appropriately 
named Queenstown ; and it was suggested that the streets in the districts should 
be named after the children of the Queen, but this proposition was unfavour- 
