In the Seventeenth and eighteenth century it was known as Pall Mall Squar until it was renamed Independence- Square on September 19th, 1983 the occasion of St. Kitts Independence. During the height of commerce and trade in the seventeen hundreds it was used as a market place where bartering and the sale of goods and slaves were the order of the day. Today Independence Square serves the public as a tranquil park, but remnants of its colonial past are still present
in the architecture surrounding its boundaries.