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Date Hill

official historic site of Antigua and Barbuda

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 21, 2026
Entity authorityQ140659816 ↗
Source-derived summary

Date Hill is an official historic site in Saint George, Antigua and Barbuda. It was a sugar plantation established in the 18th century. The sugar mill tower continues to stand. In 1829 the estate covered 132 acres.

References

Sources

Oliver, Vere Langford (1894). The history of the island of Antigua, one of the Leeward Caribbees in the West Indies, from the first settlement in 1635 to the present time. London: Mitchell and Hughes.

Editorial summary

“Date Hill” enters the record as official historic site of Antigua and Barbuda. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Date, Hill and official can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1829, 1894, 1635—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Date, Hill and official.
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Why this record matters

“Date Hill” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Date, Hill and official provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 21, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q140659816. Authority coordinates are 17.145, -61.803. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1829, 1894 and 1635.

Critical limits

The absence of detail may reflect summary conventions rather than a lack of surviving documentation. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

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  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

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This entry incorporates text from “Date Hill” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.