Carolina Port

In the early part of the eighteenth century there was a regular trade between Dundee and different ports in North America, particularly with Charleston, South Carolina, which was at that time still a British colony. When ships from foreign ports arrived in Dundee they were required to quarantine for a period and had to anchor in the river at a place that came to be called Carolina Roads. In 1788, the Dundee Glassworks Company was founded on a site approximately one mile to the east of the City of Dundee on the banks of the River Tay, and nearby a house and six workmen's cottages were built on around seven acres of land overlooking Carolina Roads. By 1801 the glassworks had closed down and…