The Queen's Staircase (Nassau)

The Queen's Staircase is a pedestrian stairway cut into solid limestone linking downtown Nassau to Fort Fincastle in Nassau Old Town. According to the supplied sources, the stairway was carved between 1793 and 1794 by approximately 600 enslaved people to provide a more direct route to the fort. In the 19th century it acquired the name associating it with Queen Victoria and has since been promoted in travel guides and walking tours as a notable historic attraction in Nassau. The supplied documentation emphasizes the site's colonial-era origin, its cultural significance tied to the labor of enslaved people, and its role as a frequently visited tourist landmark. The sources provided contain no references to hauntings, apparitions, curses, named spirits, or other paranormal phenomena associated with the staircase. Any local folklore or ghost stories not present in the supplied materials are not recorded here.