Story by Dacia Whaul
Photos by Arian Browne
Sandwiched between Success on the west and La Bonne Intention on the east, is the close knit community of Chateau Margot on the East Coast of Demerara, comprising about 600 people, according to the estimate of one resident.
This village is the home of the Chateau Margot Chimney, which once was part of a nineteenth century sugar factory that was broken down or perhaps disintegrated. All that remains now is the tall brick chimney which reaches into the sky and is something of a landmark on the lower East Coast.
Chateau Margot was once a sugar estate, but the village, according to one resident, had its origins in the 1960s. The humble cottages from those
