Rawson Square

Steps from The Port is Rawson Square. Named for Sir Rawson W. Rawson, Governor of The Bahamas during the late 1860s, Rawson Square faces historic Parliament Square with Bay Street separating the two Squares. In the middle of Rawson Square is a bronze bust of Sir Milo Butler, the first Bahamian Governor General, serving from Bahamian Independence in 1973 to 1979.