The first town built near what is now Georgetown did not survive its infancy. Soon after French immigrant Jean-Pierre de Roma and his followers built dwellings, storehouses, wharves and bridges at nearby Brudenell Point in the early 1740s, some of the settlers defected and field mice ruined the crops. In 1745 a group of New Englanders burned the settlement, causing de Roma and his family to flee to Québec. Learn More...