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HISTORY

The village here was incorporated as a Town in 1891 at which time it had a population of some 2500 people, mostly engaged in the Lumber and Banana industry. With the decline of these industries and a blight of banana trees in this area in the second half of the 20th Century the population declined, and in 1981 was legally reclassified as a village again, although retaining the historic name of "Town".

On 9 October , 2001 , Hurricane Iris made landfall at Monkey River Town. The storm demolished most of the homes in the village, and destroyed the banana crop.