Elbow Cay is an eight-mile-long cay in the Abaco Islands of the Bahamas. Although visited by Lucayan Indians earlier, the first known permanent residents were British loyalists fleeing the newly independent United States of America in 1785 in what was known as Great Harbour.
Its main village of Hope Town surrounds a protected harbour with a noted red-and-white-striped one-hundred-and-twenty-foot-tall (37-metre) lighthouse built in 1863.
Elbow Cay and the Abacos were very isolated until the Marsh Harbour Airport was built in 1959. Hopetown originally served as the administrative centre of the Abacos, until it switched over to Marsh Harbour in the 1960s.
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1964 – Dexter Press Inc (DT-88900-B Series – Type A)
