Cockburn Town is a town in the

Bahamas The Bahamas, officially the Commonwealth of The Bahamas, is an archipelagic and island country within the Lucayan Archipelago of the Atlantic Ocean. It contains 97 per cent of the archipelago's land area and 88 per cent of its population. ...

, located on

San Salvador Island San Salvador Island, previously Watling's Island, is an islands of the Bahamas, island and districts of The Bahamas, district of The Bahamas, famed for being the probable location of Christopher Columbus's first landing of the Americas on 12 Oc ...

. It has a population of 271 as of 2010.SAN SALVADOR POPULATION BY SETTLEMENT AND TOTAL NUMBER OF OCCUPIED DWELLINGS: 2010 CENSUS
- Bahamas Department of Statistics In the town there is an airport, museum, administrator's office, post office, clinic, telecommunication station, and electricity generators.Cockburn Town
/ref> Cockburn Town is named after

Francis Cockburn Lt-Gen. Sir Francis Cockburn (; 10 November 1780 – 24 August 1868) was a British colonial administrator who served in the British Army, and played an important role in the early settlement of eastern Canada. Early life and marriage Cockburn w ...

, Royal Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Bahamas from 1837 to 1844. Several buildings in Cockburn Town date from the 1800s, including the old jail. A favourite gathering place for locals is the huge almond tree at the entrance of the town.

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