Know your neighbourhood - 15: Towns of Cantonment
Overview: The word Cantonment is derived from the French word ‘Canton’ meaning district. The Cantonment area established in 1809, thrived under the Raj, and the British are credited for planting trees all across Bangalore giving it the name ‘The Garden City’. Hospitals, schools and Buildings were built in traditional English style. The streets in the old Cantonment area still bear the same names such as Brigade road, Infantry road, Davis Road, Cooke Town, Richards Town. The Cantonment area began from Richmond town in the south to Benson Town in the North, and from Race course road in the West to Halasuru in the East. Richards Park A slice of colonial Bangalore, Fraser Town holds a history of its own. Established in 1910, in the heart of Cantonment by FJ Richards, Fraser Town is named after Stuart Mitford Fraser who was the guardian of Krishna Raja Wodeyar IV. The commemorative plaque can be seen near Cole’s Road. Albert Bakery, started in 1902, still attracts a big crowd for it...